Entrepreneurial Spirit Knows No Borders
Date: August 30, 2012
The Seattle Times
August 30, 2012
In the 1920s, architects designed the 23-story art deco Exchange Building in downtown Seattle to house a stock exchange. But those plans ended when the U.S. stock market crashed in 1929.
More than 80 years later, this Second Avenue building will finally host an exchange company — an online one, that is.
That’s because Denis Kiselev, an entrepreneur from Russia, set up shop in Seattle with the help of a new U.S. immigration policy.