The guy who created Reddit’s WallStreetBets 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 behind their 3-year-old twins, taking care of his day job as a consultant – hardly the kind of character one might associate with the bubbling investment forum.
He never thought the Reddit community he created in 2012 would turn into a force so powerful that it would become GameStop Corp. GME would not ship,
driving stocks too much, nearly overthrowing a hedge fund and staring professional money managers across the country at Twitter.
“It’s a bit like watching one of the horror movies where you can see the bad guy going up stairs,” Jaime Rogozinski said. “You see this train wreck happening in real time.”
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