Not sure why alot of hacks these days with no startup experience or success feel the need to tell entrepreneurs that they need certain things.
I've never heard Richard Branson or Li Ka-Shing say that being a single founder is horrible.
I've never heard Richard Branson or Li Ka-Shing say that being a single founder is horrible.
That said, he owned the majority of the company and more or less made the final decision. Perhaps the moral of this story is that one person should ultimately have the final say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Group
One of these wikipedia page is lying :)
Edit: Branson may be the sole founder of Virgin Group, which is a holding company. He definitely was not the sole founder or Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic, or Student.