In contemporary business, few people are arrogant but very visionary, and few people have so much joy in life. However, as a legendary entrepreneur, this CEO broke the traditional impression of entrepreneurs and influenced Jobs and Musk.
From £4 to 5.4 billion business empires, the super high-speed rail with a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, a space ticket priced at only $250,000, the world’s first commercial spacecraft,... how many people in the world can Do these things? Tesla founder Elon Musk ? No, there is actually another crazy guy in the world. Jobs regarded him as an idol, Tesla CEO Musk, founders Bezos and Microsoft founder Paul Allen followed him into the field of space exploration.
This crazy guy is - Richard Branson .
Figure 1: 71-year-old Richard Branson went into space
It doesn’t matter if you don’t know Richard Branson, but he signed with Virgin Records After joining the Rolling Stones, he became popular with artists such as , Xiao Yaxuan, , Jiang Meiqi, etc. He collaborated with Silicon Valley Iron Man Elon Musk to build a super high-speed rail. There are currently three international space travel companies attracting attention, Musk’s SpaceX, Bezos’s Blue Origin, and one is Branson’s Virgin Galaxy.
Figure 2: Virgin Galactic
Richard Branson also took the lead in Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped into space,Become the founder of the first commercial aerospace company to enter space.
Figure 3: Left: Branson, right: Musk
The craziest CEO
Richard is a maverick, unconventional guy. His life is simply more exciting than Hollywood blockbusters.
He led his band "Troubleshooting" on the Queen's Enthroned Day.
He flew a plane into Baghdad to rescue the hostages during the Gulf War.
He was the first person in the world to cross the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon.
He pretends to serve the passengers as a stewardess after losing his bet.
He drove a 007-style amphibious sports car to break the world record for crossing the English Channel .
He traveled in space at the age of 71 and became the founder of the first space travel company to go to heaven.
Richard has been adventuring and challenging all his life. He can do this inseparable from his native family education. His mother is open-minded and creative, and teaches her children that there are no limits in life, to think less about difficulties and more to solve problems. His grandmother has always been eager to learn, holding a life attitude of "There is only one life, so we must live a wonderful life". At the age of 89, she took a test of Latin and went to a hole in golf at the age of 90.
Figure 4: Richard failed to bet and dressed as a flight attendant
A business empire that grew out of £4
Who would Richard ever say:" , He can spend his whole life with Virgin-grow up drinking Virgin Coke, go to Virgin Records Hypermarket to buy records released on Virgin Radio, and go to Virgin Cinemas to watch movies , I made a girlfriend through the Internet, and went on vacation with her on the' Virgin Airlines' flight, enjoying the meticulous service of the'Virgin Holiday', and then the'Virgin Bride' arranged a grand wedding,Consume a lot of ‘Virgin Contraception’ happily until the end with the ‘Virgin Pension Insurance’ to the grave. "
Who would have thought that a £4 magazine could become a business empire across multiple fields, involving more than 400 industries such as records, aerospace, aviation, railways, beverages, banking, insurance, cosmetics, etc., and it was crazy to subvert All the industries he entered have created a global model of "single-brand cross-industry management"-Virgin Group.
Figure 5: Virgin founder Richard Branson
Richard is a dreamer with a business talent and unique personality. He does things that the public cannot understand, but achieves a lot. He can make things that are impossible to others in the eyes of others.
Richard has dyslexia since he was a child, and learning is a little difficult for him. His parents have not looked at his academic performance since he was a child, and focused on cultivating his life skills and optimistic and positive qualities.
In middle school, he was 17 years old. Chad started the "Student" magazine in the basement with £4 from his mother, and the magazine quickly became popular. Finally, the principal sent him a sentence: "Congratulations, Branson. Your kid will either go to jail or become a millionaire in the future. "Later the principal’s words were fulfilled. Richard went to jail for tax evasion and established the Virgin Group and became a billionaire.
Richard, who has a keen observation, then founded Virgin Records. Signed to Rolling Stone, Sex pistols and other influential bands in Europe release records.
Gradually expand the business empire on the basis of Virgin Records. It spans multiple fields, such as aviation, telecommunications, entertainment, tourism, department stores, finance, etc.
Figure 6: Richard with his tongue out
Virgin is not only a brand name, it also means an attitude towards life: free lifestyle, rebellious, open, Advocating freedom and extremely precious romance.
Life is not resting,Creativity does not stop.
Since you can only live in the world once, you should enjoy it.
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