Richard Branson Fast Track 100, sponsored by Virgin Group, at its yearly event, where places to join Richard Branson on trips to South Africa to provide coaching and mentoring to students are auctioned to attendees. In 2009, Jason Luckhurst and Boyd Kershaw of Practicus, Martin Ainscough of the Ainscough Group and Matthew Riley of Daisy Communications helped raise £150,000 through the auction. In March 2008, Branson hosted an environmental gathering at his private island, Necker Island, in the Caribbean with several prominent entrepreneurs, celebrities, and world leaders. They discussed global warming-related problems facing the world, hoping that the meeting would be a
Railroad Tycoon II than 1.5 million copies by August 2001. In the United States, the game and its "Gold" edition together sold 351,000 copies by October 2001. According to Franz J. Felsl of PopTop, much of "Railroad Tycoon II"s success came from European markets; he explained that it "did better in Europe than it did in the US, which is not the way things usually end up." By August 2000, "Railroad Tycoon II" had been released in 39 unique SKUs worldwide, including eight Windows versions in English alone. PopTop's Phil Steinmeyer wrote that roughly 33% of the game's sales derived from the "Gold"