Courtesy of Richard Branson via LinkedInWhen Richard Branson was 16, he started a magazine called Student. But his big break came six years later when he opened a recording studio and brought in a singer named Mike Oldfield.
Oldfield released "Tubular Bells," a mega-single that would stay on the U.K. charts for 247 weeks.
"On the back of that, we built a record company," he told us, "and one thing led on to another from there."