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Re:Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has ... by amiga386 on Friday September 13, 2024 @02:44PM (#41533933)
> Branson is supposed to be a really decent chap.

Do yourself a favour and read the Tom Bower biographies of him, e.g. Branson: Behind The Mask

In fact, you can a get a good understanding of him indirectly through the testimony in Tubular Bells: the Mike Oldfield story https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=877&v=UQLDGpcgNTM e.g. John Giddings says of Branson "He was a chancer. He was prepared to gamble and go for it. He was percieved as a visionary, putting it all together, but really he was importing records illegally and flogging them, right? He was a second-hand car salesman."

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Re:Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has ... by ryandrake on Friday September 13, 2024 @03:46PM (#41534498)
Fun Fact: Richard Branson had such an antagonistic relationship with Mike Oldfield, that Oldfield included a segment in one of his albums where he plays a guitar with staccato notes that spelled out "Fuck Off R.B." in morse code[1].

1: https://www.mikeoldfield.org/amarok

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Re:Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has ... by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday September 13, 2024 @03:26PM (#41534308)
That doesn't necessarily mean he was a not-nice person.

He's actually fairly well-known for treating his employees well. One of the reasons his TV show wasn't so popular, was because he wasn't into pitting the contestants against each other, and firing the losers.

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