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In this video, we dive deep into the extraordinary life and achievements of Richard Branson, the visionary founder of the Virgin Group. From his humble begin...
Billionaire Sir Richard Branson talks about being a billionaire, Startup, Advice, Virgin Group, Space and Entrepreneurship.Billionaire Documentary - Document...
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Richard Branson's Story of Success, from the first idea to the first million.Pick up Richard Branson's biography that informed this video: https://amzn.to/32...
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Jan 1, 1998 · 3.79. 62 ratings2 reviews. The authorized biography of the dynamic British entrepreneur and adventurer. Through the huge successes of Virgin Music and his airline Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson's name has become a byword for entrepreneurial flair. This new authorized biography examines Branson's ongoing battle with British Airways for ...
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- Early Life
- Space Inspiration
- The X Prize
- Accidents and Delays
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Branson had an entrepreneurial bent from a young age, which initially defied the wishes of his father. Ted Branson told his son to be a lawyer. "Later, I felt awful because I had said to him just what my father had said to me. So, the next weekend, I walked him up and down the lawn once again and told him to forget everything I'd said," Branson's f...
In 1995, commercial rocket launching for satellites was still a young industry, and human spaceflight appeared to be a long way off – unless you were working for a government agency. Still, Branson was mulling over how to get humans into space. According to Virgin Galactic, Branson had a conversation with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrinconcerning w...
Three years later, Branson figured he had found a winner. Some of his employees excitedly told him about Scaled Composites, which was building SpaceShipOneto compete for the X-Prize. Scaled Composites was then solely receiving financing from Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft. Branson quickly agreed to work with Allen's firm, Mojave Aerospace Ve...
In December 2005, the state of New Mexico officially offeredVirgin Galactic a taxpayer-funded $225 million facility, called Spaceport America, where the company could put its world headquarters and run test flights and spaceflights. Construction and development occupied Virgin's attention in the following years. But spaceflight, and especially huma...
The company continued with a series of unpowered glide test flights, which means the spacecraft is released from its carrier ship and glides to the ground (including a 2017 successful first test of the new re-entry system) until April 5, 2018, when the company turned on the enginesof a SpaceShipTwo vehicle for the first time in 3.5 years. This powe...
Visit the Virgin Galactic official website.Check out Spaceport America's website.Watch videos from Virgin Galactic on their YouTube channel.Richard's latest autobiography reveals the highs and lows behind Virgin’s unprecedented rise from family business to global brand in the past two decades. Buy the updated edition of Finding My Virginity now. In this updated version of Finding My Virginity, Richard Branson reflects on his latest learnings, challenges, adventures and new ambitions.
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Dec 1, 2002 · Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. Branson's first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student. He then set up a record mail-order business in 1970. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records ...
