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Company · Music · Transportation & Logistics · Telecommunications · founded 1970

Virgin Group

British private conglomerate founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell. The Virgin brand began with a mail-order record business and grew into airlines, rail, telecoms, space travel and more.

Of the 1 person here linked to Virgin Group, 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 Group

Founder

Role

Founder (with Nik Powell); chairman 1970 to 2009, 1970–now
Source · medium confidence. The Virgin Group page lists him as a founder, as owner in its infobox, and as chairman 1970 to 2009. The Wikipedia page describes the group's start as a 1970 mail-order record business. No page opened states his present title.
Still there
Music · Telecommunications 2 / 3
Richard Branson
Founder, Virgin Group
upper-middle-class · elite · no college