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Losing My Virginity: How I'Ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way - Hardcover

Branson, Richard

 
9780812931013: Losing My Virginity: How I'Ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

Synopsis

The author looks back over his exploits as one of the world's most unconventional business tycoons, from crash-landing his hot air balloon in the Algerian desert to signing the Sex Pistols to his record label

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About the Author

<b>Richard Branson</b>, the founder and chairman of the Virgin Group of Companies, was born in 1950 and started his first business, a magazine called Student, when he was sixteen. Virgin began in 1970 as a mail-order record company and has since expanded into over a hundred businesses in areas as diverse as travel, entertainment, retailing, media, financial services, and publishing. He lives in London and Oxfordshire with his wife, Joan, and their children, Holly and Sam.

From the Inside Flap

Oh, screw it, let's do it."</b><br><br>That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin Megastores), and nearly a hundred others, ranging from financial services to bridal wear, Branson has a track record second to none.<br><br>Losing My Virginity is the unusual, frequently outrageous autobiography of one of the great business geniuses of our time. When Richard Branson started his first business, he and his friends decided that "since we're complete virgins at business, let's call it just that: Virgin." Since then, Branson has written his own "rules" for success, creating a group of companies with a global presence, but no central headquarters, no management hierarchy, and minimal bureaucracy.<br><br>Many of Richard Branson's companies--airlines,

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