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January, 2009

Which tycoons do other tycoons like? Apple's Steve Jobs, for oneIn 1986 I gave an interview to a British paper. The head­line was Branson's bombshell. I said that we were planning to put every album andsingle onto a small portable computer box and that the lis­tener would be able to buy it and play any record they wanted, listening through mini-headphones. I said it would revo­lutionize the musicindustry—and people believed me. I got frantic phone calls from some major record company bosses plea...