Richard Branson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Richard Branson

English business magnate, investor and philanthropist

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1950

Place of Birth: Blackheath, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, businessperson, entrepreneur, investor, television producer, balloonist, aircraft pilot, film producer, high school teacher, autobiographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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About Richard Branson

  • Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist.
  • He founded the Virgin Group in the 1970s, which controls more than 400 companies in various fields.Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age.
  • His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student.
  • In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business.
  • He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972.
  • Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label.
  • In 2004, he founded spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic, based at Mojave Air and Space Port, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism. In March 2000, Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace for "services to entrepreneurship".
  • 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 2007, he was placed in the Time 100 Most Influential People in The World list. In April 2018, Forbes listed Branson's estimated net worth at US$5.1 billion.

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