Steven Bartlett

Dropped out of university at nineteen, built a social media marketing company and took it public, and now runs one of the most listened-to interview podcasts in Europe.

Diary of a CEO, the book, sets out thirty-three laws drawn from the interviews, and the useful material is on discipline, storytelling and the psychology of quitting.

The podcast drew a BBC investigation in 2025 which found health misinformation going unchallenged across a number of episodes, including claims about cancer and diet. He responded by adding warnings and a fact-checking process. Worth knowing before treating any health episode as vetted.