Richard Branson
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Emerging from a dyslexic upbringing in Blackheath, London, Branson left Stowe School at sixteen and launched the magazine Student, which financed his first mail-order record venture. Leveraging the publication to advertise cheap albums, he opened the first Virgin record shop on Oxford Street and expanded the brand into Virgin Records and the global Virgin Megastore chain. The 1980s saw diversifica…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
