Richard Branson: The Virgin King
Fred Goodman, Vanity Fair, May 1992
With the unprecedented $1 billion sale of Virgin Records, British mogul Richard Branson said good-bye to the last major independent label in the world and the flagship company of his empire. It's been a long, strange trip for the counterculture daredevil who rose to become Maggie Thatcher's favorite entrepreneurial whiz. Now he's pitting Virgin Atlantic — and his new cash — against the giant British Airways. Fred Goodman reports.
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