Steven Bartlett was the youngest Dragon to join the main Dragons' Den panel.
Bartlett joined the UK programme in 2022, when he was 29 years old. He was already known as a technology entrepreneur and as the co-founder of Social Chain, a social-media marketing company established in Manchester in 2014. His appointment brought a younger, digital-business perspective to the panel.
Before joining television, Bartlett had built a public profile through entrepreneurship, podcasting and business writing. His investment interests on the programme have often reflected online communities, consumer brands and technology-enabled companies.
This fact is about the age at which a person became a main Dragon, not the age at which they founded a business or first appeared as a guest. Several Dragons were successful entrepreneurs while still young, but Bartlett's appointment at 29 is the specific panel record commonly reported for the UK edition.