Within a year of launching student magazine, i gather your net worth was 50 thousand pounds. You've now got the the mail order record business going, virgin records. By this point, we may have been turning over cristotic money. Big turnover, very little profit in those days. It really wasn't until a young guy, aged 15, brought a tapein that our sort of fortunes began to change. And so we thought t start ond record company. We started it literally around this album called tubila bells, and it was by my goldfield. For three or four years, it and dark side of the moon by pink floyd would usurp each other as number one
In this week's Business Weekly, Samira Ahmed speaks to business mogul Sir Richard Branson about becoming a serial entrepreneur developing the Virgin brand, signing some of the biggest names in music and the next frontiers of space travel.
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