Prologue 1
Chapter 1 1999
Chapter 2 What You See Is What You Get 14
Chapter 3 Building a Business from the Back of a Beer Mat 23
Chapter 4 Let's Get Physical 35
Chapter 5 How to Start a Train Company 41
Chapter 6 Answering Madiba's Call 48
Chapter 7 "What do you call a Virgin employee with a tie? The defendant" 55
Chapter 8 The World Turned Upside Down 62
Chapter 9 The Elders 72
Chapter 10 "They're building a spaceship!" 81
Chapter 11 An Englishman in America 92
Chapter 12 The Rebel Billionaire 102
Chapter 13 Crossing the Channel 112
Chapter 14 Steve 119
Chapter 15 Four-Play 128
Chapter 16 Holly and Sam 136
Chapter 17 The Elders Assemble 146
Chapter 18 Climate Change 156
Chapter 19 Back on Track 168
Chapter 20 Becoming a Banker 179
Chapter 21 Planes and Mergers 189
Chapter 22 Plain Sailing 200
Chapter 23 "Somebody mentioned the word 'hurricane'" 209
Chapter 24 A Lost Night in Melbourne 223
Chapter 25 Shoes 230
Chapter 26 Revealing Character 238
Chapter 27 Dad 248
Chapter 28 Like a Roiling Stone 260
Chapter 29 Necker 272
Chapter 30 Weddings 282
Chapter 31 Start-ups 290
Chapter 32 Calculated Risks 306
Chapter 33 The Accident 316
Chapter 34 Moving On 326
Chapter 35 Floating 338
Chapter 36 Audacious Ideas 349
Chapter 37 Satellites 365
Chapter 38 Good Morning, Vietnam, Good-bye, Madiba 382
Chapter 39 Brexit 396
Chapter 40 Traingate 410
Chapter 41 "We're fee!" 421
Chapter 42 Grand-Dude 430
Chapter 43 Traveling into the Future 439
Chapter 44 Surviving the Hurricane 453
Epilogue 468
Acknowledgments 476
Appendix: Seventy-five six Close Shaves 477
Picture Credits 487
Index 489