Steven Bartlett@StevenBartlett
life is so weird!
Some years ago, in a Manchester bedroom, i started a podcast with a $100 microphone and called it The Diary Of A CEO...
The idea was that i'd share some of the more personal things in my diary - that first episode got 40 subscribers on Apple.
Most of them were my friends.
Thankfully, two of my friends told me it wasn't as embarrassing as I thought it was, and told me to carry on.
Today, about 6 years after bringing the show to YouTube, we hit 16,000,000 subscribers.
This month we had 90 million± downloads/views (a new record for us), and added 600,000+ new subscribers to the show.
no rational person looking at me sat in that bedroom at 3am, trying to figure out how to edit on garage band, using a sock as a pop-shield for the microphone, would have forecast any of this. i certainly did not.
all of this has been so weird to me that it's mentally easier to just not think about it, and focus on the work... which is the decision we've always made and will continue to make
In an industry dominated by American media giants, I'm really proud that a show founded in Britain by a team of now hundreds of Brits, many of them young people in their first job, can compete globally...
And i'm reminded again what's possible with the right people, the right focus, a willingness to work very hard, (and some good fortune and timing).
AND... i'm reminded again of the power of the creative industries in the UK.
FLIGHTSTORY, our media company behind The Diary Of A CEO and a growing slate of other shows, just finished its 25,000 sqft campus in central London and is expanding in the US.
We're hiring like crazy - so please get in touch if you're looking for a job!
We're looking for everything from software engineers, creatives, C-suite level execs and more!
To the audience who show up week after week, thank you so much for handing me one of the great, unexpected, privileges of my life!
ok, back to work!
