"From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.
~ Richard Branson ~












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