The new series of Dragon's Den is set to start tonight.
Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman, and Sara Davies will return to decide whether they are going to invest in the business ideas pitched by another batch of budding entrepeneurs.
The dragons will be joined by a new face this year as Steven Bartlett has joined the popular BBC programme.
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Steven is the youngest ever dragon at the age of 29 - and amassed a fortune as founder and CEO of successful social media marketing agency The Social Chain.
The businessman is now estimated to be worth around £50 million - and built up the company from humble beginnings as it was founded in his bedroom in Manchester.
Steven was originally born in Botswana and moved to Plymouth aged two year's old. His family struggled financially and he told This Morning's Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield how this led him to develop a keen business prowess at an early age.
He said: "We had no money so Christmas and birthdays we didn’t have money to celebrate them.
"So, I would wake up and my lunch money would come from something I would sell. By the age of 14 I started running the school trips. I did a deal with a vending machine company to put vending machines in the school."
Steven enrolled at Manchester Metropolitan University at 18, but dropped out after one lecture.
According to Mirror Online, he initially struggled after the drop out and resorted to shoplifting from corner shops to stop himself from going hungry.
However, he had built two companies, Social Chain and Media Chain, at the age of 22.
The company merged with German retailer Lumaland at the age of 27 and is now estimated to be worth £300 million.
However, Steven left the successful company in 2020 to focus on new projects and released his debut book, Happy Sexy Millionaire, last year.
He also hosts a hit podcast named The Diary of A CEO and has interviewed guests including Jimmy Carr and Gym Shark founder Ben Francis.
Steven is now looking forward to his stint on Dragons' Den and he hopes he can act as role model for people from similar backgrounds.
According to MyLondon, he told Radio 1 Xtra's If You Don't Know podcast: "Much of the reason for me wanting to be a Dragon and wanting to do the show is because I know the show is a big platform and I am not represented on that show as an entrepreneur. There's not been a young, black man on that show.
"I feel like I have a responsibility to do this because it will show 12-year-old Steve, or other 12-year-old Steves, that they too can be business people.
"To see someone like me on the show as well that's not going to wear a suit, and that is into all the same things you're into - like hip-hop music, jollof rice, Manchester United and whatever else it is - I think is an enabler.
"Because role models are most powerful when you can relate to the path they've walked."
Dragons' Den airs tonight at 8pm on BBC One
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