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Sir Richard Branson is an amazing man.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve ever said those words about anyone before.\u00a0 He has started over 360 companies that shook up industries that vary from Limo services to Airliners.\u00a0 As far as personal achievement, he has had wondrous adventures to break (or at least attempt to break) world records in travel.\u00a0 He self-denigratingly jokes when he claims to hold the world record for being the person who has been rescued at sea the most number of times (poking some fun at his failed attempts, but still proud of having the adventure he did).<\/p>\n

\"Sir<\/p>\n

Unlike past keynote speakers at SolidWorks World. Richard Branson opted for an interview style presentation, where the CEO of SolidWorks, Jeff Ray, sat down on stage with him in a friendly and informative exchange.\u00a0 The many topics covered included his first business, childhood business ventures that never quite made it, the start of Virgin Records <\/a>and of Virgin Atlantic Airways<\/a>.\u00a0 Branson made it clear that successful companies are constantly innovating, and that they “listen, listen, listen” to their customers wants.\u00a0 Branson’s green heart comes through when he discussed trying to make this world a better place, stating that we “need to ween ourselves off dirty fuels.”<\/p>\n

Earlier, Jeff Ray talked about examples of products designed using SolidWorks that are improving our world.\u00a0 One of these struck home for Branson.\u00a0 He seemed to passionately embrace Design that Matters efforts to provide incubators to poor countries.\u00a0 This passion spilled over into off stage discussions.\u00a0 Jeff Ray noted that much of the post interview conversation he had with Branson was about getting those incubators to where they are needed.\u00a0 As Ray put it, “he is the real deal.”<\/p>\n\n\n

There’s a lot more about this conference, such as in the article SWW09: Monday General Session (Part 2: products to make the world a better place)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sir Richard Branson is an amazing man.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve ever said those words about anyone before.\u00a0 He has started over 360 companies that shook up industries that vary from Limo services to Airliners.\u00a0 As far as personal achievement, he has had wondrous adventures to break (or at least attempt to break) world records … Continue reading “SWW09: Monday General Session (Part 3: Sir Richard Branson)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,319],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sww09"],"yoast_head":"\nSWW09: Monday General Session (Part 3: Sir Richard Branson) - 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