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If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
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