#BettingPeople Interview GARY WOODGATE Betting Industry Entrepreneur 3/4
Gary Woodgate has been at the sharp end of Star Sports since jumping ship from an established career with Ladbrokes. In that time he has helped the firm to a meteoric rise from its humble beginnings taking credit bets on the telephone of a residential flat to one of UK’s largest independent firms renowned for taking huge bets. In this four part interview he tells his story.
In Part 3, Gary explains why Star has bucked trends, from betting shops to on-course pitches, how efforts to diversify haven’t always gone to plan, his reputation as a hard man in business and being able to thrash out decisions man to man with Ben Keith.