The man who created WallStreetBets for Reddit is not who you think he is.
He is 39 years old. He lives in Mexico City with his wife, a doctor, and spends his weeks running after their 3-year-old twins and doing his daily work as a consultant – hardly the kind of character he could associate with the investment forum. roiling.
He never imagined that the Reddit community he created in 2012 would turn into such a powerful force that he would send GameStop Corp. GME,
acts in overdrive, almost overturns a hedge fund and leaves professional money managers across the country staring at Twitter with their mouths open.
“It’s a bit like watching one of those horror movies where you can see the bad guy slowly climbing the stairs,” said Jaime Rogozinski. “See this train wreck happening in real time.”
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