Ep. 269 - Sir Richard Branson: How He Found a Gap in The Market and Became The Billionaire Founder of Virgin
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network. |
| 0:11.0 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.0 | If I have an instinct on something I don't get a cat and become spend days and days analyzing |
| 0:22.0 | Princeton when I started Virgin Atlantic. |
| 0:25.0 | He never got an accounting firm in to see whether or not we've baked money or lose money. |
| 0:29.0 | Instinctively any firm for accountants would say you're mad, you're running a record company. |
| 0:35.0 | There's no way you can make this success out of the airline business, especially when you're |
| 0:39.0 | hard to get any money started. |
| 0:41.0 | And even our big rival, Bruce Sherway, said that I was too old to rock and roll to young |
| 0:46.0 | to fly. |
| 0:47.0 | You'll be bankrupt within 12 months and 35 years later Virgin Atlantic is still going strong. |
| 0:53.0 | How did you do it? |
| 0:54.0 | How did you convince Boeing to essentially lend you a plane? |
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