The release date for the English version of 'Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way' by
Richard Branson is Oct 1999. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"Oh, screw it, let's do it."
That's the mindset that has helped Richard Branson launch so many profitable businesses in little over 25 years. Branson has an unrivaled track record in a variety of industries, including aviation (Virgin Atlantic Airways), music (Virgin Records and V2), cola (Virgin Cola), retail (Virgin Megastores), and over a hundred more, ranging from financial services to wedding apparel.
One of the greatest business geniuses of our time wrote an unconventional and sometimes absurd autobiography titled Losing My Virginity. Richard Branson and his pals chose to name their first company "Virgin" since they were "complete virgins at business." Since then, Branson has penned his own "rules" for success and established a collection of businesses with a worldwide reach but no central office, no formal management structure, and nothing in the way of red tape.
Airline, retail, and cola are just a few of the firms that Richard Branson founded in the face of fierce competition. Expert advice was to "don't do it." However, areas where consumers have been taken advantage of or neglected, where misunderstanding is rampant, and where competitors are complacent provide Branson with golden possibilities.
And Richard Branson provides us with a new role model in this busy and stressed-out era: a vibrant, successful, and driven entrepreneur who fully embraces life. In Branson's life, family, friends, pleasure, and adventure are just as important as work. Losing My Virginity is a collection of vivid and fascinating tales that paints a picture of a successful, sensible, and balanced life:
despite his hot-air balloon crash landing in the Algerian desert and his unwavering determination to try again and become the first person to circle the world
Phil Collins, Boy George, Janet Jackson, the Rolling Stones, and the Sex Pistols
Retaliating against Virgin Atlantic, British Airways was able to sue this mainstay of the British corporate community.
Swimming two miles off the coast of Mexico during a strong storm to safety
Virgin Atlantic is being saved by selling Virgin Records.
arranging a rescue mission into Baghdad prior to the Gulf War...
and a lot more. A guy who combines the economic acumen of Bill Gates with the marketing savvy of P. T. Barnum writes the definitive story of personal and professional survival in Losing My Virginity.