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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

Richard Branson: "Finding My Virginity"

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson details his nearly 50-year career in his new book, "Finding My Virginity." He opens up about founding the Virgin Group, launching more than 300 businesses -- from Virgin Records to Virgin Airlines to Virgin Galactic -- and his relationship with his children and wife. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In this episode of Boss Files, I think 16 weeks from now we should be in space,

0:06.0

and maybe six months from now I should be in space.

0:09.0

Sir Richard Branson, knighted by the Queen, the Daredevil Entrepreneur opens up about his mission to space,

0:16.0

how Nelson Mandela changed him, his lunch with President Trump before he was president, and the

0:22.7

10 days he spent with the Obama's post White House on his private island.

0:26.9

I spent time with Barack out.

0:30.9

He beat you, kite-sailing.

0:32.9

Kite surfing competition together, which he won.

0:35.7

And we had, you know, we had some dinners and lunches

0:40.3

together. It's all in his new book, Finding My Virginity, a cheeky title, of course. Did he find

0:46.6

that? Not exactly, but he found so much else. It's a fascinating read on his 50 years in business

0:53.2

and what is to come.

0:55.0

Here's my conversation with Sir Richard Branson.

0:58.2

Sir Richard Branson, thank you for being here.

1:00.2

It's always lovely to talk you.

1:01.4

We sit this time together discussing your life a lot because of a brand new book,

1:06.7

Finding My Virginity, a cheeky title, as my co-anchor John Berman says. Look, you wrote this. This was no

1:14.0

ghostwriter. This is you telling your story, sort of the second half of a virgin, if you will.

1:19.4

You write, you can only lose your virginity once, but in every aspect of my life, I tried to do

1:24.2

things for the first time every day. What do you mean? I find it impossible to say no to something.

1:32.3

So people come with new challenges on a daily basis.

1:36.3

I see gaps in the market where I feel that we could do it better and we leap in and do it you know and try and

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