Ibranson
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...