Richard Branson – Age 71
Richard Branson is a prime example of gaining success through failing forward. Now the founder of the Virgin Group Ltd., he claims to have failed with several projects before buying a record store, which became Virgin Records, and later Virgin Megastore. This has since expanded into several other industries.
This includes an airline, gyms, mobile network, and banking, among notable other projects. Branson is also renowned for his philanthropy and for chasing records, with him breaking the record in traversing the Altlantic by boat and by air balloon. In 2021 he became the first person to take his rocket into space.
