{"id":923,"date":"2008-12-29T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/by-now-everyone"},"modified":"2008-12-29T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T14:32:13","slug":"by-now-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/12\/by-now-everyone.html","title":{"rendered":"Ask Richard Branson a question"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now everyone knows that Sir Richard Branson will be the guest speaker at SolidWorks World 2009<\/a>. But ssshhhh, here’s a secret news item that ONLY you will know\u2014we won\u2019t be asking Sir Richard (\u201cplease call me Richard\u201d) to stand up and give the traditional canned speech, even though we already know that he’ll be fascinating. <\/p>\n

It turns out he\u2019s much more comfortable sitting down and having a chat on any topic we may want to discuss. So he and I will sit together onstage and have a conversation. I’m ironing my smoking jacket and already have a pretty good list going; from his earliest days as a \u201dstart-up\u201d, to his adventures battling BA and American Airlines, to his forays into everything from colas to music stores, to his many charitable efforts, and, of course, to his current initiative with rocket scientist and SolidWorks World 2005 speaker\/SolidWorks customer Burt Rutan and the imminent launching of Virgin Galactic<\/a>. That\u2019s a lot! But we thought it would be great to get the community of SolidWorks users involved, too. After all, why should I have all the fun? <\/p>\n

So, here\u2019s the offer \u2013 if YOU could sit down with Richard and ask him anything (keep it clean; I know how some of you think), what would it be? And, something deeper than \u201c\u2026if you were a tree, what would you be?\u201d It doesn\u2019t  have to be serious; after all he only pursues interests that he and his employees can genuinely have fun doing.  <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s your chance to be the next Larry King\/David Frost\/Oprah\u2014leave your questions for Sir Richard in the comments section. If I ask your question on stage, I\u2019ll mention your name and company, and the same will appear behind me on-screen. <\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t this sound better than the same old predictable stand-up speech and death by PowerPoint? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now everyone knows that Sir Richard Branson will be the guest speaker at SolidWorks World 2009. But ssshhhh, here’s a secret news item that ONLY you will know\u2014we won\u2019t be asking Sir Richard (\u201cplease call me Richard\u201d) to stand<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}