Perhaps there is absolutely nothing here, but I wanted to post this to /r/conspiracy because honestly I didn't know where else to post.
Well, a few months ago I learned about this incredibly popular Youtube channel called "The Diary of a CEO", huge channel (16.8M of subscriptions).
It called my attention for two reasons. First: while reasonably aware of the world and the internet realm, I have never heard anything about this guy before, despite him being supposedly SO popular. Second, he interviews important and influential people, like very important and influential people.
When I mention the latter, I mean all the usual suspects you would see on mass media and the best-sellers lists – writing and talking about science, technology, economy, business, entertainment, etc. – I mean the usual suspects who are pretty obviously those who the "1% of the 1%" want you to hear about all the time, spreading certain, specific ideas. (This would make this fella a sort of English Joe Rogan I guess??)
Anyway, I did a brief search. The man behind the channel is a millionaire called Steven Bartlett. Nothing in his bio indicates to me where the fuck he came from, and how is it that a black guy supposedly born in Botswana ended up in 10 years, at 33, interviewing Michelle Obama, Matthew McConaughey, Jimmy Fallon, MrBeast, Neil deGrasse Tyson and guys even playing the fake outsider agenda like Jordan Peterson.
All I could see from his website timeline is that he supposedly dropped out from college in UK and then founded some random startup. Then he just got into a few investments and businesses – everything pretty vague in my eyes. Not like he founded PayPal, ebay or Google.
And then, once again, absolutely nothing on how he supposedly became millionaire over night.
Also interesting to notice, most of this guy's videos spread a lot of fear-mongering, with absurdly alarming and even apocalyptic titles.
Given the high profile of the people who this guy is interviewing one week after another (this guy releases like three 2-hour long interviews per week!), and the obviously high production value behind those interviews, I wonder… who are behind this man and who he really is?
Again, perhaps I'm chasing nothing but I must know.
Posted by metacognitive_guy
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I just recently started seeing him and wondered where he came from too. It seems like he suddenly was so successful out of the middle of nowhere. The things you did find out are interesting
moosad ?
He’s been on my radar for about three years. I started watching his interviews on YouTube while cleaning around the home. I guess I never suspected anything about his story of rising. He mentions small details about his life growing up and his move to the UK, however, I’d love to know exactly how he made his money too.
From earlier interviews I gained an understanding that he hit the DOAC thing pretty hard with a lot of early content that went no where. And that there were supposedly many attempts at starting a business before that.
Just a talking head the validates the positions of the hedge funders. It teaches young men who are lost and have no direction, a way to be. No girlfriend maybe when you’re rich because you act like this. It’s just Andrew Tate for money and capitalism.
*I completely agree.*
He’s no overnight success. I first listed to his podcast more than 7 years ago when it was mainly startup stories and interviews. I’ve sporadically caught some of his yt interviews over the years. I skipped reading his book, but that was a best seller a few years back.
It would appear he’s done it the hard way by grafting and building a team around him. But he certainly seems to have grown over the last few years so every chance he’s been captured.
FYI he’s one of the investors he on Dragons Den (UK’s Shark Tank)
If you listen to his episodes it’s inevitable he’ll talk about himself a little bit.
Hes been on UK Dragons Den for a few years. Came outta nowhere. Hes a grifter.
There’s quite a lot out there about him being a grifter and his claimed financial success in business being far from the real story. At least the supposed scale of it.