 Penguin Random House Audio presents Finding My Viginity, The New Autobiography by Richard Branson Read for you by Steve West Dedicated to my parents, Ted and Eve, who made me who I am. To my sisters, Lindy and Vanessa, who have always been there for me. To my wife, Joan, who makes every day an adventure. To my children, Holly and Sam, who dream of an even brighter future. And to my grandchildren, Etta, Artie, Eva Dayer and Bluie, who make me want to turn our dreams into reality. A special thank you to Greg Rose for helping me pull this project together. Greg has spent years getting to know my life, my mind and my tennis serve, and searched through countless unburnt notebooks and memories for us to bring this book to life. Prologue You can only lose your virginity once. But in every aspect of my life, building businesses, raising my family, embarking upon adventures, I try to do things for the first time every day. When I first published Losing My Viginity in 1998, I wasn't a tool prepared for the reaction. I expected the business community, some newspaper reviewers, and a few autobiography readers to pick it up, but before I knew it, the book had taken off. Losing My Viginity is still the most common object handed to me, except a mobile for a selfie, usually by a person with a pen and a smile. I have written short updates to my autobiography over the years, but so much has happened in the past two decades that I realized I needed to write a sequel. I was pondering the right time to do this, when I came across my old notes for student magazine's launch in the archive. I rubbed the dust away to double-check the date. The notes really were from 1967. What better way to mark fifty years since I started out in business than by sharing everything that has happened and all I have learned over the decades? This book highlights incidents from my early days, but it concentrates on the past twenty years, the time I have been finding my virginity all over again. Losing My Viginity kicks on from where Losing My Viginity left off, at the dawn of the new millennium. By 1999 people thought we had done everything, and there was nowhere else left for us to expand, no new challenges for me to embark upon. But being involved in running a company like Virgin is never a question of sitting back, it's about constant reinvention as the world changes, and as do I. This is the story of the last two decades, told through one of the most dynamic brands ... Sample complete. Ready to continue?