RICHARD BRANSON

RICHARD BRANSON.

Just like any other entrepreneur Richard Branson was ambitious. He was determined to make something for himself. He came from far business wise and also at an early age he was only sixteen when he started his first business venture of selling newspaper aimed at teenagers and student at school. But he did not stop there after three years he found his first virgins, the Virgin mail order record company - virgins because they were all virgins in business. Shortly after that they also opened a record shop on Oxford Street in London. They built a record studio in Oxford shire that proved to be the pivotal start needed for Virgin records.


Even though he had his business going he liked to achieve as much as he could and he joined the airspace not only did he enter something different from his usual work he also challenged himself by saying he would do it in three months and succeeded. Virgin Atlantic is now the second biggest international hauler from Heath-row and Gatwick. He is know one of the riches entrepreneurs..”He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Technology from Loughborough University.” In 1987 his Virgin Atlantic Flyer hot air balloon was the first hot air balloon to cross the Atlantic. Though he has failed numerous times in his attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon non-stop, he won’t quit trying. Recently, he also licensed the technology behind Spaceship-one - the first privately funded craft to reach space and win the Ansari X prize - to form Virgin Galactic to take passengers to sub orbital space from 2010”