Dyslexic and failure. At 16, Richard Branson dropped out of school in 1968. The school's far-sighted assessment of his future: criminal or millionaire. Not even three years later, he opened the first Virgin record store on Oxford Street and shortly thereafter landed his first million-dollar deal with a record contract. This laid the foundation for his Virgin Group, which today generates over 20 billion dollars in revenue and employs more than 50,000 people. In his million-selling bestseller "Losing my Virginity," the enterprising multi-talent spans the years from 1950 to the threshold of the millennium. It is the impressive autobiography of an adventurer and free spirit, for whom giving up is simply not an option.