Richard Branson Biography

Sir Richard Branson was born July 18 1950 and is an English business magnate investor and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group which comprises more than 400 companies.Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. At the age of sixteen his first business venture was a magazine called Student. In 1970 he set up a mail-order record business. In 1972 he opened a chain of record stores Virgin Records later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s as he set up Virgin Atlantic and expanded the Virgin Records music label.In March 2000 Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace for services to entrepreneurship". In July 2015 Forbes listed Branson's estimated net worth at US $5.2 billion."

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