Finding my virginity: the new autobiography

Prologue

1999

What you see is what you get

Building a business from the back of a beer mat

Let's get physical

How to start a train company

Answering Madiba's call

"What do you call a Virgin employee with a tie? The defendant"

The world turned upside down

The elders

"They're building a spaceship!"

An Englishman in America

The rebel billionaire

Crossing the Channel

Steve

Four-play

Holly and Sam

The elders assemble

Climate change

Back on track

Becoming a banker

Planes and mergers

Plain sailing

"Somebody mentioned the word 'hurricane'"

A lost night in Melbourne

Shoes

Revealing character

Dad

Like a rolling stone

Necker

Weddings

Start-ups

Calculated risks

The accident

Moving on

Floating

Audacious ideas

Satellites

Good morning, Vietnam, Good-bye, Madiba

Brexit

Traingate

"We're free!"

Grand-dude

Epilogue.