{"id":43388,"date":"2014-09-11T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=43388"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T10:34:02","slug":"adam-pikett-victoria-walton-luke-pikett-rhys-jones-sportpursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/adam-pikett-victoria-walton-luke-pikett-rhys-jones-sportpursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Pikett, Victoria Walton, Luke Pikett and Rhys Jones: SportPursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Adam Pikett, Victoria Walton, Luke Pikett and Rhys Jones, 33, 31, 31 and 30 <br> Company: <\/b>SportPursuit<br> <b>Web: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportpursuit.com\">www.sportpursuit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The founders of SportPursuit have been on our radar almost since the business was founded &ndash; first covered in our Just Started in 2011, the business was a Young Start-Up of the Year finalist in 2012 and most recently placed at <a href=\"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2014\/11-sportpursuit\/\">number 11 on this year&rsquo;s Startups 100 index<\/a>. Their place on 2014&rsquo;s Young Guns list comes as no surprise, then, but is no less well deserved for it, having grown the UK&rsquo;s first-ever sports flash sales site from scratch into a business with multi-million pound revenues and more than a million loyal members.<\/p>\n<p>Working with more than 600 brands worldwide to create &ldquo;why not&rdquo; prices, the site can offer truly unbeatable deals to its audience of primarily affluent men between 30 and 50, with sports equipment regularly offered at up to 70% off RRP. 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