Richard Branson pulled the ultimate move to get the girl.<\/p>\n
While some might try to impress with flowers or a fancy dinner, Branson knew he had to do better.<\/p>\n
His play ended in marriage and the ownership of an entire island.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: This ultra-unique $218m Florida mega-mansion is on its own private island<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n We all know Richard Branson as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.<\/p>\n He\u2019s a man of many talents, most recently having conquered space travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n But there was a period where he was still finding his financial feet.<\/p>\n In 1978, he was running Virgin Records with moderate success.<\/p>\n Branson chose the name \u2018Virgin\u2019 as an indication that he was new to business.<\/p>\n One day, a friend alerted him to the fact that one of the British Virgin Islands was for sale.<\/p>\n <\/a>Virgin Limited Edition <\/p>\n \u201cWhat do you do when hear that there\u2019s an island, with the same name as your company, up for sale?\u201d he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou call up the people selling it and enquire!\u201d<\/p>\n This is the same region where the late and disgraced Jeffrey Epstein owns a private island<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was perfect timing, as he had been brainstorming ways that he could impress a certain woman that he had his eye on.<\/p>\n <\/a>Virgin Limited Edition <\/p>\n He phoned the realtor to arrange a viewing of the island and asked if he could bring a plus one.<\/p>\n He bluffed his way through the phone call, leading the realtor to believe he had a lot more money than he did.<\/p>\n Soon he and his crush were on an all-expenses paid viewing trip to Necker Island.<\/p>\n They were put up in a private villa and treated to helicopter tours of the island.<\/p>\n Richard Branson immediately fell in love with the island, envisioning it as a luxury getaway for rockstars to rest and record albums for his label.<\/p>\n The realtor offered it to him for the discounted price of $6 million.<\/p>\n <\/a>Virgin Limited Edition <\/p>\n Branson offered the most that he could: $100,000.<\/p>\n \u201cThe realtor was less than impressed, and left us high and dry to find our own way back home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Amazingly, a year later the island still hadn\u2019t sold and the owners were getting desperate.<\/p>\n This time Branson could up his bid, to a still pretty measly $180,000.<\/p>\n It was sold with the agreement that he would build a resort on the island within four years.<\/p>\n Today, Necker Island can accommodate 40 guests in multiple luxurious villas.<\/p>\n Guests get access to two beaches, private pools, a personal chef, and 100 staff members.<\/p>\n So he got the land, but did he get the girl?<\/p>\n A few years after buying Necker Island he hosted the ultimate party there: their wedding.<\/p>\n The post The story of how Richard Branson accidentally bought his private island is incredible<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Richard Branson pulled the ultimate move to get the girl. While some might try to impress with flowers or a fancy dinner, Branson knew he had to do better. His play ended in marriage and the ownership of an entire island. READ MORE: This ultra-unique $218m Florida mega-mansion is on its own private island We …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}