Richard Branson

Businessman Richard Branson started the Virgin Company very small but now has branched out to 20+ smaller sub-business'. Branson believes that if you can run one company, you can run many more. He get's the idea for his smaller Virgin sub-business' is by what his ideal for (i.e. a bad air plane flight (Virgin Airlines). He sold his record company when it was at it's peak, to protect the jobs for his Virgin Airlines, which turned out to be a financial success since the invention of Napster and online downloading of music. In total Virgin Company is worth 35 billion dollars and employs over 55,000 employees. Branson is currently working on a project to send people to space in a comfortable space shuttle type of veichle. Branson himself is known as a risk taker, he claims that in his adventures there were 6 times that he believed he was going to die, one of those times was when he tried to fly over the Atlantic Ocean in a hot air balloon. When Branson was a child in school he was dyslexic, and it forced him to drop out of school at the age of 15. Branson is described as a natural since he wasn't well in school he was did very well in sports, such as Rugby and Swimming.