I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .
I imagine we'll start off with: Great opportunity to come into a dysfunctional organisation, work for two shareholders who are at each other's throats, expect to receive the occasional barrage of emails and the odd derogatory, blasphemous phone message,
Now he's being given the opportunity to buy back effective control (of Virgin) at 1.40 aud (a share), so it is an extraordinarily wonderful situation for him. I hope he hasn't danced on my grave prematurely.