Chloe Melas is an entertainment correspondent for NBC News.
Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group, has turned his money and focus toward a very personal new project: DyslexicU, the first free online university for dyslexic thinkers. The inspiration? Branson himself has lived with dyslexia. “I quit school at 15 because I was dyslexic. I didn’t know I was dyslexic. It hadn’t really been invented when I was at school,” he told NBC News in an exclusive interview this week.
“If you’re a dyslexic person, you can go on and take one of the courses and learn more about how incredibly successful dyslexic people have used their dyslexic thinking to turbocharge their careers,” Branson’s co-founder Kate Griggs told NBC News. “If you’re not dyslexic, you can go on and you can understand how dyslexics think and how you can develop those skills as well to be successful. Eventually it will be everything from banking to advertising and space science.
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