Dragon's Den star Steven Bartlett's podcast started off with £90 microphone - now he makes $1.2m a year from it

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Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The secrets of how Dragons' Den star Steven Bartlett makes $1.2m a year from his popular Diary of a CEO podcast have been revealed for the first time.

In his latest episode, the co-founder of Manchester business Social Chain outlined his journey from starting almost four years ago with a £90 microphone from Apple with a duvet over his head at 3am and no script.

At the time Mr Bartlett had "no plan and no team" so he had to edit it myself and started out spending almost eight hours preparing each episode as a "total one off experiment". READ MORE: How Dragons' Den star Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO live show lit up Manchester's Albert Hall He only began