Website: www.virgin.com






Why they made the list..

Richard Branson, a high-school dropout (college dropout for you UK readers) started his first business in 1966 aged 16yrs, a magazine called Student, however it wasn’t without hard work and lots of studying. Richard has Dyslexia, although at the time no one knew what Dyslexia was. He had to overcome his fears and his Dyslexia so that he could publish his magazine and sell it. There was no other choice for him, he was too highly motivated to give up and work a 9-5 job. However his battle with Dyslexia was overcome and he went on to make a great deal of revenue with his magazine.

Then in 1970 he decided to create a company, a mail order record retailer, the first of it’s kind in the UK. He named his business Virgin, due to him being very new to business. Shortly after starting his business, he opened a brick and mortar store in Oxford Street, London, with his business becoming a success, he built a recording studio with the profits he had made and signed his first “Virgin” musician, Mike Oldfield (of Tubular Bells fame). In 1977 the Sex Pistols joined Virgin Records. Richard went on to create a further 200 companies and today is one of the UK’s wealthiest entrepreneurs. So if you have Dyslexia, like myself, and you think that’s a hurdle, forget it. Richard managed to overcome it, and so have I, you can too. Believe.