While I don’t see eye-to-eye on everything with Sir Richard Branson, he is still one of my favorite entrepreneurs of all time. He has a great zest for life, a focus on contribution to the world, and has built an incredible conglomerate of businesses under one unified brand (Sir Branson – do you need a business broker?). I’ve enjoyed his autobiographical books “Losing My Virginity: How I’ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way” and “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur.” Following is an interview with Branson conducted by Arianna Huffington of Digg on board a Virgin America flight.
As a business broker, I have known many entrepreneurs who have felt the same way that Branson said he felt after selling his record business: while he was happy to have had a successful business sale, it was akin to selling a child and left him running down the street crying.
