Finding my virginity : the new autobiography

Book 2017

Fifty years after starting his first business, Branson shares the candid details of a lifetime of triumphs and failures and what he really thinks about his unique life and career. As he led Virgin into the new millennium, Branson expanded the brand into new categories, all while preserving its iconoclastic, scrappy spirit. Now he takes readers behind the scenes of the incredible brains, heart, and sacrifices that have gone into making private spa...

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Branson, Richard

Businesspeople Great Britain Biography

Virgin Group

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ISBN:

9780735219601

Description:

viii, 471 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

Prologue
1999
What you see is what you get
Building a business from the back of a beer mat
Let's get physical
How to start a train company
Answering Madiba's call
"What do you call a Virgin employee with a tie? The defendant"
The world turned upside down
The elders
"They're building a spaceship!"
An Englishman in America
The rebel billionaire
Crossing the Channel
Steve
Four-play
Holly and Sam
The elders assemble
Climate change
Back on track
Becoming a banker
Planes and mergers
Plain sailing
"Somebody mentioned the word 'hurricane'"
A lost night in Melbourne
Shoes
Revealing character
Dad
Like a rolling stone
Necker
Weddings
Start-ups
Calculated risks
The accident
Moving on
Floating
Audacious ideas
Satellites
Good morning, Vietnam, Good-bye, Madiba
Brexit
Traingate
"We're free!"
Grand-dude
Epilogue

LCCN:

2017301131

Control Number:

2749778

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