The man who created RedSit’s WallStreetBets isn’t who you think he is.
He is 39 years old. He lives in Mexico City with his wife, a doctor, and spends weeks chasing his 3-year-old twins and doing his job as a consultant, hardly the kind of character one can associate with the forum. investments.
He never imagined that the Reddit community he created in 2012 would become such a powerful force that he would send GameStop Corp. GME,
he over-shares, almost drops a hedge fund and leaves professional money managers across the country watching Twitter with his mouth open.
“It’s a bit like watching one of those horror movies where you can see the bad guy slowly climbing the stairs,” Jaime Rogozinski said. “You see this train wreck happening in real time.”
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