Richard Branson – 4.9B USD
Richard Branson is yet another wealthy person in the United Kingdom. At the tender of age 16, he started his entrepreneurial life when he launched a magazine called Student. He then founded the record store chain Virgin Records, which kept growing and making more money. Virgin went on to become a record label and eventually an airline. The Virgin Group is also the parent company of Virgin Galactic, which has been doing research on space tourism since 2004. Branson has earned a knighthood courtesy of the Buckingham Palace for his extraordinary entrepreneurial skills.
Richard Branson – 4.9B USD
Ann Gloag – 1.04B GBP
Did you know that before she founded the transport company called Stagecoach, Ann Gloag was a trained nurse? She spent twenty years working in a burn unit when she took a different career track. When she started Stagecoach, it only had a bus taking on the Dundee to London route. She had to ask money from her husband, father, and brother to fund the startup. Luckily, Stagecoach was a success and later bought out the National Bus Company. She is also the owner of Kent International Airport! She got it for a single pound and then shut it down. Who knows what she plans to do with it? We can’t wait.
Ann Gloag – 1.04B GBP
