Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School

About the Author

Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group. He was born in 1950 and educated at Stowe School, where he set up Student magazine when he was sixteen years old. In 1970 he founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer and shortly afterward opened a record shop on London’s Oxford Street. Two years later the company built a recording studio and Virgin Records went on to become one of the top six record companies in the world.

Since then, Virgin Group has expanded to encompass more than four hundred companies in over thirty countries. Branson is the only person in the world to have built eight billion-dollar companies from scratch in eight different sectors. Through the Virgin Group’s charitable arm, Unite, he is working to develop new approaches to social and environmental problems.

Branson’s autobiography, Losing My Virginity, and his books on business, Business Stripped Bare, Screw Business As Usual, and Screw It, Let’s Do It, are all international bestsellers. He lives on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands and is married with two grown-up children.