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Company · Transportation & Logistics · founded 1984

Virgin Atlantic

British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, started in 1984. Virgin Group owns 51 percent and Delta Air Lines 49 percent, per its Wikipedia infobox.

Of the 1 person here linked to Virgin Atlantic, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at Virgin Atlantic

Founder

Role

Founder, 1984–now
Source · medium confidence. The infobox names him as founder; the article text says the airline was originally planned by Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary and that Virgin Group holds 51 percent. Current status is inferred from his continued public role (2020 rescue financing); no page states his present title.
Still there
Music · Telecommunications 2 / 3
Richard Branson
Founder, Virgin Group
upper-middle-class · elite · no college