Entrepreneurial Spirit Knows No Borders

Published: 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.

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