Virgin Group, every mention
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Advice Line with Richard Branson of Virgin
- ▶ 1:03 Guy Raz Joining me this week is legendary entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:01 Richard Branson And I heard, I heard the story of, um, how you were on a, on a flight one day, and it wasn't a Virgin flight, I hastened out. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Virgin founder Richard Branson, the legendary Richard Branson. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Richard Branson So, I mean, when I turned up in Australia to launch Virgin Mobile, um, they drove me from Sydney out to a field, and there was a helicopter there, and, uh, and I thought, oh, well, that's nice.
- ▶ 39:26 Guy Raz When you sort of look back on your time building Virgin, you know, if you could go back to the, to the twenty-year-old kid starting that, that mail or business and say, hey, I'm coming from the future. 3 times in the scene
Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
- ▶ 35:29 Nuseir Yassin I think there's an opportunity for the next Virgin group, because Richard Branson built an incredible ecosystem of, I'm gonna take a boring business, and I'm gonna make it fun, and it's like physical stuff. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
- ▶ 42:11 Nuseir Yassin I think there's an opportunity for the next Virgin group, because Richard Branson built an incredible ecosystem of, I'm gonna take a boring business, and I'm gonna make it fun, and it's like physical stuff. 2 times in the scene
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- ▶ 42:40 Mark Gainey Um, there was a Virgin, uh, from the UK.
Wayfair: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine
- ▶ 10:26 Steve Conine Um, think of Virgin Mobile in the UK where they use a Virgin brand name, and they actually operate on top of, um, British Telecom's network.
- ▶ 10:26 Steve Conine Um, think of Virgin Mobile in the UK where they use a Virgin brand name, and they actually operate on top of, um, British Telecom's network. 2 times in the scene
Virgin: Richard Branson
- ▶ 0:04 Richard Branson You know, I find the bank manager sitting on my doorstep, and stupidly I invited him into the house, and, and he tells me that he's gonna close the whole Virgin Group down on the Monday, and, um, I, I don't normally get angry, but I just…
- ▶ 0:46 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, the story of how Richard Branson took a record shop and built it into an airline, a bank, space tourism, a cola, and more than 200 other businesses, all under the name Virgin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Richard Branson Uh, Virgin Records, 10 to 60% off any album on any label. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:19 Richard Branson Uh, nobody had ever sold music at a cheaper price than the normal retail price, uh, and it was the start of Virgin.
- ▶ 6:20 Guy Raz So, so Virgin Records began as one, uh, one record shop, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:53 Richard Branson Stupidly, I invited him into the house, and, and he tells me that, um, we've gone slightly over our overdraft facility, and that he's gonna close the whole Virgin Group down on the Monday, and, um, I, I, I don't normally get angry, but I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:59 Richard Branson We actually rather hope that BA will do this again every Christmas, but anyway, um, we realized then that we needed the firepower to deal with BA, um, in order to keep all the jobs protected at Virgin Records and at the airline, I needed… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:07 Guy Raz So, two years after he sells Virgin Records, Richard Branson decides to take on two of the biggest brands in the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:24 Richard Branson Um, yeah, no, look, if, if something's not working, I mean, you know, the advantage that Virgin had relatively quickly was that we had cash to try things out, and, um, what's important when you do have cash is that you do try things out.
- ▶ 23:03 Richard Branson I mean, for instance, Virgin Megastores, we, we clung on far too long and cost us a lot of money.
- ▶ 26:58 Guy Raz By the way, how many companies, uh, are, are there now under the Virgin name? 3 times in the scene