Rocket Man

So I announced this ages ago, but thought it might be nice to post it here, too. My spaceship company, Virgin Galactic, unveiled the world's first tourist spaceship. SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo were a huge hit, and we're getting more and more paying passengers reserving spots on our waiting list.

Check me out with the model here... and before you ask, yes, I was feeling a little constipated.

Warm regards,
Sir Dick

I'm just thinking out loud here

Everyone I meet back in the States is all about the Oscars. But lets face it, while some films are good, most are complete rubbish because the studios don't care about quality, they only care about international DVD sales.

Perhaps Virgin should get into the film business. If Steve, David, and the other guy could start Dreamworks, I could surely start Virgin Films. With Pinewood studios here in London doing their big building spree to model the world in the space of an ASDA car park, there is certainly an opportunity to produce a number of them locally.

Thoughts? I think I'll bring it up with my advisors tomorrow...

Warm regards,
Sir Dick

Argh

Sometimes the Government really irritates me. Now they're getting in my way of taking over Northern Rock. Which means that Northern Rock customers will receive poorer service for higher prices, instead of great Virgin service at great Virgin prices. My American friends say they've got a term for this... cock-blocking.

Warm regards,
Sir Dick

Nothing but the best

You may have read that I'm selling my Virgin Active chain of fitness centres. I recently concurred with my advisor's recommendation to have Goldman Sachs lead the banking end of the deal. They're top-tier bankers. Until I manage to get around to starting my own Investment Bank, they're the ones I prefer to deal with for my deals. Nothing but the best for my companies. (Especially when the cash is coming back to me!)

Bob Rubin was the Treasury Secretary during Bill Clinton's administration, and he's one of the legendary GS lads... so I figure I can't go wrong.

Warm regards,
Sir Dick

Northern Rock, part 2...

You've all probably heard the news by now... Virgin is the preferred buyer of Northern Rock. As I wrote nearly a month ago, "Virgin's coming."

There are plenty of things that could still potentially go wrong, but Virgin's committed to turning Northern Rock around without firing everyone and ruining the business or industry.

We're still debating how to brand the business... I've been a fan of Virgin Rocks, but my advisors say there might be confusion about whether that would refer to Rock-and-Roll, my upcoming line of stores for geologists, or just a statement of the obvious.

I'll keep you all updated on progress. Now back to my conference in paradise...

Warm regards,
Sir Dick

Conference

Hello, everyone. For the Americans out there, I hope you had a good Thanksgiving holiday. (Remember you can work those extra calories off at Virgin Active!)

I was trying to keep this quiet, but some jackass posted about it on the internet, so I can't any longer.

I'm hosting a very exclusive conference for CEO's at my Necker Island paradise. It's a time where I can get a group of high-powered visionaries like myself around my big dining room table and talk about important stuff. Unfortunately, so many of these other CEOs came from consulting backgrounds, so they don't actually know how to do anything. They're great on the vision thing, but most have no idea how their products or companies work. Oh, well... that's what I'm there for, to teach them about real people.

Anyway, I'll try to keep you updated on details, but no guarantees.

Warm regards,
Sir Dick

Still waiting...

As I mentioned to the reporter here, while I've got a few of the big new Airbus planes on order, they're not really big enough. I'm trying to press them to build their 900-seat version of the plane as quickly as they can.

You may start criticising me saying, "Whoa, Sir Dick, isn't that contributing to even MORE global warming??"

NO.

People are going to fly where they want to fly. But I can tell you for sure that one 900-person airplane flight from London to San Francisco uses up less fuel (and creates less CO2) than two 450-person airplane flights on the same route. So by using these huge planes on key routes, we are actually reducing environmental damage.

Or at least that's what my advisors are telling me....

Warm regards,
Sir Dick