Sir Richard Nicholas Branson was an English businessman, investor, writer and philanthropist. He founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies. His first business, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he whatsapp phone number list founded an email recording company. He opened a series of record stores, Virgin Records, known as Virgin Megastores, in 1972.
Branson’s Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, when he founded the Virgin Atlantic company and expanded the music brand Virgin Records. In 2004, he founded Virginflactical spaceflight company, based in Mojave Air and Space Port, designated for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space travel.