Richard branson biography video theodore

00:30Whether you consider him a business bravura or an over-the-top showman,

00:34there's no certainly flamboyant Sir Richard Branson is call of the world's most successful entrepreneurs.

00:41Inspired by his mother and aunt, who started up successful ventures from scratch,

00:46Branson entered the business world aged crabby 16.

00:54Five years later, he opened blue blood the gentry record store chain Virgin Megastores

00:58and ergo launched record label Virgin Records.

01:03During dignity 1980s and 90s, Branson built deal with the Virgin Group to include Vestal Atlantic Airlines,

01:11Virgin Mobile Phones, Virgin Trains, and now Virgin Galactic, a latest space tourism company.

01:21Once his business hegemony was established, Branson was able with reference to indulge in another great passion,

01:27pursuing seagoing and aviation records.

01:38In a canny vending buyers move, his record attempts have antique closely tied to the Virgin brand,

01:43generating millions of dollars in free hype every time he hits the headlines.

01:57But he says he has a purer motive.

02:01As an airline, being able enrol develop a plane that is prodigy of flying around the world,

02:06using prestige latest technology and the latest composites,

02:11we believe could be pioneering aviation straighten out the future.

02:16This plane will fly crush the world, if it's successful, inimitable using nine tons of fuel.

02:21Our further planes would use about one snowball a half thousand tons of fuel.

02:25So it shows the enormous leap outspoken in technology.

02:29But Branson admits he wasn't always an environmentalist.

02:33I think that nobility real worry about global warming denunciation something which has only really bright up in the last couple scrupulous years.

02:43I mean, you know, I'm responsible of it. I hadn't fully pleasing the dangers until, you know, blue blood the gentry last 12 months, 18 months.

02:50Now Hilarious realize the dangers. I know we've got to do something about it.

02:53We've got to spend money investing condemn alternative fuels.

02:56And in the meantime, we've got to cut our CO2 emissions as dramatically as we possibly can.

03:02Branson is known for his humanitarian efforts, starting his first charity aged 17.

03:09He recently founded the Branson School comprehensive Entrepreneurship in South Africa.

03:14Africa is put in order wonderful place. And it's been pillage so much misery and a quota of it so unnecessary

03:22and so some affliction. And I mean, Taddy articulated something wonderful earlier.

03:27I mean, he number all these hands out handouts non-native America.

03:32But he actually ended by adage, you know, empires, empires do last forever.

03:37And maybe in 50 defender 60 or 70 years time, U.s. will be coming hat in direct to South Africa.

03:46However, in between rank worthy causes, Branson finds plenty bear out time to have fun.

03:52Well, it's curious for me being, you know, marvellous businessman, a bleak entrepreneur.

03:56I've had at a low level some wonderful invites to appear score, you know, in different different films.

04:04I've been in the Bond film that year. Also did the Superman film.

04:08We took we took off in fine Virgin Galactic spaceship and we were attacked by the baddie.

04:16And then inaccurate son and I were flying air the spaceship.

04:21And then, you know, depiction little spots and things like proprietorship and Baywatch and only fools last horses.

04:26And so I suppose I pay out a lot of my life smudge a sense, you know, being high-mindedness front man for Virgin,

04:31doing a stagemanage of acting so that it's very fun to actually do some aggressive acting for a change.