Sir Richard Branson: "Moon hotels"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sir Richard Branson to talk about how he chooses ideas (4:40), investing in Memphis Meats (7:00), bringing billionaires together on Necker Island to invest in startups (8:30), setting up a $2bn fund with TPG (11:45), starting Virgin at 15 (13:00), what works (15:30), why he has backed Hyperloop (18:25), what problem it is solving (20:10), how short haul flights will be hurt by Hyperloop (23:15), why India will start with passengers by 2022 (25:40), the bar at Necker (26:20), why he has spent $1bn on space tourism (27:35), launching the first satellite rocket in September (30:30), and the first commercial space flight this year (31:50), lunar tourism (33:30), the resurgence of vinyl (37:15), whether #metoo has changed how he markets and does business (38:40), why he’s not interested in eternal life (39:50), kite surfing (41:20), and why he hasn't retired (42:45).

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from deep inside the Silicon Valley Future Machine.
0:08.1	Before we get today's show with Sir Richard Branson, which is great.
0:13.3	Just a very quick heads up.
0:15.1	Next week, if all goes well, we will have two pods for you, a double episode.
0:20.8	Got some very cool stuff cooking, so please don't miss out on that.
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0:44.7	Now, on to today's show.
0:48.7	Yo, technology.
0:51.5	What is it all about?
0:52.7	I mean, my instinct is that the end of my lifetime and in my kids' lifetime,
0:59.6	that there will be pods traveling throughout the world and connecting the world much more quickly.
1:05.9	Thank you for tuning in. Today on Danny in the Valley, we have none other than Sir Richard Branson,
1:11.8	the bearded billionaire behind Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Music, Virgin Galactic, Virgin Hyperloop 1,
1:19.1	Virgin Orbit, all kinds of stuff. Now you may be thinking, well, why do you have Richard
1:24.5	Branson on a tech podcast? Well, for one, he has backed lots of startups from Ring, the video doorbell company that Amazon just bought for a billion dollars, to transfer-wise, the money transfer giant, which is also a unicorn and a bunch of others in between.
1:42.8	But he's also directly involved in things like Hyperloop
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