User:ShahidLaskar123/sandbox

Background
In 2013, I was a student at Edinburgh University.

Whilst studying, I often found myself obsessed with Twitter, and one day I ran out of toilet paper - a common student problem.

Faced with this familiar tale of student life, I decided to tweet about it, creating a Twitter page called ‘Student Problems’.

After rapidly growing the page to the biggest student community on social media, Steven Bartlett reached out to me about potentially working together.

I met him shortly after in a Revolution bar another staple of student life, I dropped out and we began working together on a startup idea called Wallpark - an online noticeboard for students.

Through marketing Wallpark, we created a number of social media communities, similar to Student Problems, and ended up with millions of young people at our fingertips - and Social Chain was born.

In 2014, we secured investment for our idea of building Social Chain, a network of social media communities with millions of followers across platforms, and set about building the team and working with the world’s biggest brands.

Reaching yearly group revenues of near €200m and a successful IPO, Social Chain was an industry-blazing success, advising the likes of Coca-Cola, Twitch, Uber, Superdry, Amazon and Veet amongst many others.

Throughout my time building Social Chain, I’ve been an advocate for mental health and young people, speaking globally and being invited to give a TED talk to share my story on sobriety.

Business Ventures
Founded Social Chain with Bartlett in 2014 and In August 2020, Bartlett and co-founder; Dominic McGregor, left the agency to pursue other interests. Reaching yearly group revenues of near €200m and a successful IPO, Social Chain was an industry-blazing success, advising the likes of Coca-Cola, Twitch, Uber, Superdry, Amazon and Veet amongst many others.

Public Speaking
Throughout my time building Social Chain, I’ve been an advocate for mental health and young people, speaking globally and being invited to give a TED talk to share my story on sobriety.

Awards and recognitions
• Greatest British Entrepreneur of the Year

• Dominic is the 24 year old co-founder and COO of The Social Chain, an award winning social first marketing agency and social media publishing house with offices in London, Manchester, Berlin and New York. • The group owns 400 digital communities and is able to reach over 386 million, working with brands such as Superdry, Warner Music, New Balance and Coca Cola. Dominic is a speaker, entrepreneur and an advocate for young people’s mental health and personal development in business. • An award winning social first marketing agency and social media publishing house with offices in London, Manchester, Berlin and New York.