The Virgin Group is a privately held holding company. No shareholders to provide accountability. If Branson makes good on his pledge, I'll bet most of that money goes into his own alternate-fuel refinery and other "CGI" intitiaves that will end up making a profit. In other words, he is pledging money to himself and his own "for profit" business ventures.
Five years from now, we should pressure him to allow an external audit to see if he really did donate all of the profits from Virgin and how he spent that donation.
By the way, the look on Clinton's face is priceless. You can just tell what he thinks of Richard
are these ventures even showing a profit NOW? The other airlines aren't. And it's pretty obvious rail doesn't fare too well either