The office for the venture was situated in the crypt of St. The first issue of Student appeared in January 1968, and a year later, Branson's net worth was estimated at £50,000. Early business career Īfter failed attempts to grow and sell both Christmas trees and budgerigars, Branson launched a magazine named Student in 1966 with Nik Powell. In London, he started off squatting from 1967 to 1968. His mother was an entrepreneur one of her most successful ventures was building and selling wooden tissue boxes and wastepaper bins. īranson's parents were supportive of his endeavours from an early age. īranson has also talked openly about having ADHD. īranson has dyslexia, and had poor academic performance on his last day at school, his headmaster, Robert Drayson, told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. He attended Stowe School, an independent school in Buckinghamshire until the age of sixteen. īranson was educated at Scaitcliffe School, a prep school in Surrey, before briefly attending Cliff View House School in Sussex. Later, he stated that one of his great-great-great-grandmothers was an Indian named Ariya. On the show Finding Your Roots, Branson was shown to have 3.9% South Asian (Indian) DNA, likely through intermarriage. Starting from 1793, four generations of Branson's family lived India, mostly at Cuddalore Tamilnadu. īranson's great-great-great-grandfather, John Edward Branson, left England for India in 1793 John Edward's father, Harry Wilkins Branson, later joined his son in Madras. His grandfather, Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson, was a judge of the High Court of Justice and a Privy Councillor. He has two younger sisters, Lindy Branson and Vanessa Branson. Early life īranson was born in Blackheath, London, the son of Edward James Branson (1918–2011), a barrister, and his wife Eve Branson ( née Evette Huntley Flindt 1924–2021), a former ballet dancer and air hostess. At 70, Branson became the third oldest person to fly to space. The mission lasted approximately one hour, reaching a peak altitude of 53.5 miles (86.1 km). On 11 July 2021, Branson travelled as a passenger onboard Virgin Galactic Unity 22 at the edge of space, a suborbital test flight for his spaceflight company Virgin Galactic. In July 2021, Forbes listed Branson's estimated net worth at US$5.7 billion. In 2007, he was placed in the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World list. For his work in retail, music and transport (with interests in land, air, sea and space travel), his taste for adventure and for his humanitarian work, he has become a prominent global figure. In March 2000, Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace for "services to entrepreneurship". In 2004, he founded spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic, based at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism.
The Virgin Trains brand operated the InterCity West Coast franchise from 1997 to 2019, the InterCity CrossCountry franchise from 1997 to 2007, and the InterCity East Coast franchise from 2015 to 2018. In 1997, Branson founded the Virgin Rail Group to bid for passenger rail franchises during the privatisation of British Rail. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started the Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records-later known as Virgin Megastores-in 1972. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. īranson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, commercial astronaut and business magnate.
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