Biography
British Snapson Richard Branson is the main extremal among billionaires of the planet Earth. Businessman 80 times was in the hairs of death. In the mid-1980s of the 20th century, Branson, who managed to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a boat and fly over him in a balloon, received an offer from Mikhail Gorbachev to become the first space tourist. I implemented the dream of a flight in space. An entrepreneur three and a half decades later.Childhood and youth
The future billionaire was born on July 18, 1950 in the area of London Blackhate, famous for the ancient Celtic trails and diverse vegetation. Richard is the firstborn in the family of Ted and Eva Branson, winning in the honeymoon. Dick's father Edward James, who had a family nickname Tedd, was a lawyer, Eva's mother before marriage had time to visit the dancer and a stewardess.
After 3 years after Richard, the sister of Lindi's boy appeared, and after 6 years, Edward and Eva gave the life of Vanessa. Parents with young nails were instilled independence. At 4 years old, the mother put out a dick out of a car for a few miles to the house and left, Welly the Son to find the road himself and get home.
Eva attracted children to their small business - the manufacture of wooden boxes for napkins and boxes for paper waste, which she supplied to restaurants and bistro. In addition, Branson junior helped in housekeeping and gardening. But Richard and his sisters were free in judgments and long before the majority discussed with their father cases from his legal practice and the problems of the legalization of drugs.
In school, Dick studied badly. The cause of the weak achievement of Branson junior was dyslexia and myopia. The only way to conquer the location of teachers and classmates for Richard was progress in sports. Branson headed school teams on football, cricket and rugby.
Once, during the match, Richard broke his leg. When the boy woke up after the operation made under the general anesthesia, he discovered that he was on the bed under the drip, but the bed herself stands on the street. As it turned out, a fire occurred in the hospital, and the patients were evacuated. As long as Richard was treated, the mother found out the lag of the heir in all subjects and translated him to another school, practicing corporal punishment. In the autobiographical book, Branson recalled that he constantly had a black ass.
Promoting in some school disciplines The Son of Lawyer did not help not rogues, but unusual for a student's student. Suffering out of loneliness, Richard retired in the school library and wrote an erotic novel, and then won the competition for writing a short story and began to have a better time in English grammar. Some sections of mathematics have submitted Branson during the implementation of business ideas: the teenager grown that wavy parrots for sale, then the Christmas trees that implemented before Christmas.
At the age of 15, Richard began to create a Student school journal, which tried to attract solid advertisers. In incomplete 17 years, Branson completed training at school, receiving a characteristic from the director:
"You will become or a criminal, or a millionaire."The first issue of the magazine was published in January 1968. According to the billionaire, 100 pounds of sterling helped the publication, which Mother Richard received from the sale of the necklace found (the woman referred to the police station, but when no one turned to decorate, Eva was allowed to pick up the jewel to themselves). John Lennon, Mick Jagger and other stars were published in Branson's magazine.
Business and creativity
Now Branson is extensive and very diversified business. Blackkhet's native - the owner (or co-owner) companies engaged in air and rail transportation, mobile communications, as well as a branch of stem cells. But Richard firms for the production of strong alcoholic beverages and colas broke out.Of particular fame received the company Virgin Galactic, which is planning to develop space tourism, whose sole owner performs Branson. In March 2000, for services, the Knights of the Buckingham Palace was dedicated to the Knights of the former school loser.
Richard - the author of bestsellers "Losing innocence", "To hell with everything! Throwing and do "and" naked business ", which were published accordingly in 1998, 2006 and 2008, respectively. Books that have made the strongest impression on him, Branson calls "a long way to freedom" Nelson Mandela and "Wild Swans" of the British writer of Chinese origin Yun Zhang.
The billionaire was repeatedly starred in Sitkoms and full-length films. In the series "Friends" and "Malibu Rescuers" Richard played himself, and in the comedy militant Frank Karachi "around the world for 80 days", released on the screens in 2004, appeared in the image of the air balloon operator.
Personal life
In his youth, Richard took Kristen Tomasi in his wife. However, happiness in the personal life of Branson found with Joan Templeman, who met when the first marriage had not yet been terminated. The second chosen one gave the owner of two children - Holly and Sam - before Richard decided to legitimize the relationship with her. The state of the daughter of Richard, who worked in the Neurology Department of the Chelsea Hospital, is now estimated at $ 3 billion. The cost of Branson's assets in July 2021 Forbes estimated at $ 5.7 billion.
The billionaire advocates the abolition of the death penalty and for the equalization of the rights of homosexuals with heterosexuals, and is also a supporter of the UK membership in the EU. In December 2020, Branson Virgin Orbit established a scholarship of the Patti Grace Smith, designed to materially support the black graduates of universities, novice career in the space industry.
Branson has repeatedly installed records for the speed of overcoming various geographic objects. So, in 1991, a businessman crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balloon at a speed of 233 km / h. In March 2004, Richard established a world record for the speed of intersection of the La Mans strait on car amphibian.
Richard Branson now
At the beginning of the summer of 2021, the head of Amazon and the richest man of the earth Jeff Bezos said that July 20 will fly into space as a tourist. Having learned about the idea, Branson played ahead and on July 11, he flew to a height of 88 km on the tourist rocketoplane of his company Virgin Galactic.The photo of the cosmonaut's father appeared in the Instagram Account Holly Branson. The realization of the children's dream and advertising of Virgin Galactic Richard dedicated several publications on the "Twitter" page. And Bezos, and Ilon Mask congratulated a competitor. However, the chapter Amazon did not forget to recall that the conditional "beginning of space" is at a distance of 100 km from the ground.
Bibliography
- 1998 - "Losing innocence. How I built a business, doing everything in my own way and getting pleasure from life. "
- 2006 - "To hell with everything! Take and do! "
- 2007 - "To hell! Take and do! - 2 "
- 2008 - "Naked Business"
- 2008 - "Arctic Diary: Survive on Thin Ice"
- 2010 - "To achieve heaven. Aeronauts, Birds and Space Starts »
- 2010 - "Open globalization: lessons of international business"
- 2011 - "To the line" Business as always ""
- 2013 - "As a virgin: Secrets that will not be taught in a business school"
- 2014 - "My Rules: Listen, Learn, Laugh and Be Leader"
- 2017 - "In search of innocence: a new autobiography"