Gymshark CEO: How I Built A $1.5 Billion Business At 19! Ben Francis

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

December 27, 2021

Duration

1h 36m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This weeks episode entitled 'Gymshark CEO: How I built A $1.5 Billion Business At 19:' topics: 0:00 Intro 02:18 Your early years 15:16 Co-founders 18:15 Developing yourself personally & within Gymshark 36:00 The Worst Character traits in business 38:34 Learning how to speak infront of people & a camera 45:57 Why are you vlogging inside gymshark? 51:06 Gymshark through the pandemic 58:32 What do you wish you knew sooner in business? 01:03:42 Struggles with business personally 01:13:57 The future of Gymshark 01:27:19 Advice for young entrepreneurs 01:33:34 The last guests question Ben: https://www.instagram.com/benfrancis/ https://twitter.com/BenFrancis1992?s=20 @BenFrancis Listen on: Apple podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-diary-of-a-ceo-by-steven-bartlett/id1291423644 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7iQXmUT7XGuZSzAMjoNWlX FOLLOW ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steven/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveBartlettSC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-bartlett-56986834/ Sponsor - https://uk.huel.com/

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Ben Francis

  guest

• Steven Bartlett

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Ben Francis and Steven Bartlett, Gymshark CEO: How I Built A $1.5 Billion Business At 19! Ben Francis explores from Shy Teen To Billionaire CEO: Ben Francis’s Gymshark Blueprint Ben Francis recounts how he built Gymshark from a bedroom startup into a multi‑billion dollar global fitness brand before turning 30, emphasizing luck, timing, obsessive learning, and relentless hard work. He explains how early influences—manual graft with his grandad, a practical IT course, and gaming—shaped his entrepreneurial mindset and approach to building teams. A major thread is his personal evolution: from an arrogant, introverted, ‘Hurricane Ben’ founder to a self‑aware CEO who uses 360° feedback, coaches, and role changes to deliberately re‑engineer his own weaknesses. He also shares candidly about co‑founder separation, social‑media pile‑ons, office vs remote work, future retail plans, and why he chose to step back into the hardest job in the company.

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