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Branson
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noun
- BransonRichard1950MBritishBUSINESS: entrepreneur Sir Richard . born 1950, British entrepreneur. In 1969 he founded the Virgin record company, adding other interests later, including Virgin Atlantic Airways (1984), Virgin Radio (1993), and the Virgin Rail Group (1996): made the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by boat (1986) and the first of the Pacific by hot-air balloon (1991)
Example Sentences
His aeronautics company may not have been the first to sail beyond the planet’s upper atmosphere; Sir Richard Branson beat him in that .01% space race.
Sir Richard Branson has responded to BBC Radio 1's Greg James' bid for an "Air Force Hun" mission to create a British version of the all-female flight that sent pop star Katy Perry to the edge of space.
The company went public in 2021 by merging with a blank-check company sponsored by British billionaire Richard Branson, and soon boasted a market valuation of some $6 billion.
Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, made a trip aboard his company's VSS Unity spacecraft in July 2021.
A number of big names have backed Glossip's efforts in the past including Pope Francis, Kim Kardashian and Sir Richard Branson.
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