{"id":44717,"date":"2016-09-01T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=44717"},"modified":"2016-09-01T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T10:30:42","slug":"jason-trost-moving-business-to-us-direct-result-of-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/jason-trost-moving-business-to-us-direct-result-of-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Gun Jason Trost moving business to US as direct result of Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/jason-trost\/\">Jason Trost<\/a>, a Growing Business Young Gun since 2010, has revealed that he is starting the process of moving his peer-to-peer betting exchange business Smarkets to the US as a result of the UK&rsquo;s decision to vote to leave the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Business Insider,<\/em> the entrepreneur &ndash; whose London-based business is set to post revenues of more than &pound;20m for year-end 2016 &ndash; said he plans to open a new office in the US at the start of next year with Brexit having given him the &ldquo;impetus to move sooner rather than later&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Trost also announced that he is considering a &ldquo;Delaware flip&rdquo;; the term for when an international company registers itself as an American company.<\/p>\n<p>The news sees Trost become one of the first entrepreneurs to actually shift operations overseas as a result of the EU referendum but Smarkets&rsquo; London office will still remain in operation albeit &ldquo;becoming less important over time&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Trost <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/betting-exchange-smarkets-searching-75-employees-boost-growth\/\">revealed plans to add 75 new employees to its Central London office and outlined the company&rsquo;s &ldquo;self-management&rdquo; structure<\/a> whereby it&nbsp;lets employees set their own salaries, take as much holiday as they need and make their own decisions about operational conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Trost told <em>Business Insider<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I feel very strongly about [Brexit]. I think it&rsquo;s one of the biggest mistakes this country has ever made &mdash; a catastrophe is putting it lightly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think people realise [the implementation of Article 50 is] not done yet. [&hellip;] Brexit is not Brexit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Trost, a Growing Business Young Gun since 2010, has revealed that he is starting the process of moving his peer-to-peer betting exchange business Smarkets to the US as a result of the UK&rsquo;s decision to vote to leave the EU. 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