Book · recommended on 3 episodes
Losing My Virginity
Richard Branson ISBN 9780812931013
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Richard Branson ISBN 9780812931013
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This book by Richard Branson has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Blake Mycoskie, Steven Bartlett, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-12-02 and the most recent from 2022-12-12. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“Richard, having spent the last 24 hours reading both your autobiographies, but also your new HBO um docu-series, Eve”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Richard Branson: Founder of the Virgin Group, billionaire entrepreneur behind Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Voyages and Virgin Galactic, and a record-setting adventurer. Richard Branson on how dyslexia, delegation and relentless diversification built the Virgin empire from a school magazine to space.
“this is chronicled quite a bit in Losing My Virginity, which was one of the books that had a huge impact on me when I was in my early twenties.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Tim Ferriss: Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body and 4-Hour Chef, host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, early-stage startup investor and advisor to companies including Shopify, Uber and TaskRabbit. Tim Ferriss fields a solo live Q&A on PR, marketing, launching products, selling to the affluent, time dilation, and his personal protocols.
“i was reading a lot of richard branson's stuff and i read losing my virginity which is a great group you've never read one of the books that sort of kick-started me”— Blake Mycoskie
The guest here is Blake Mycoskie: Founder of TOMS, the shoe company built on a 'one for one' model that has given away more than 60 million pairs of shoes to children in need. A serial entrepreneur who started several businesses before TOMS, he was also a contestant on The Amazing Race. TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie tells Tim Ferriss how a serial entrepreneur turned an Argentina shoe drive into a one-for-one giving company.
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