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Jaime Rogozinski, the founder of Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum who made headlines for raising GameStop’s stock price last week, causing hedge funds to lose billions, has sold his life story.
The protagonist of the message board will have the saga told by director Brett Ratner’s film producer, RatPac Entertainment.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the deal for the exclusive rights to Rogozinski’s story was in “six digits.”
The producer intends to make a film, podcasts and other content based on the viral story.
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Ratner, who was accused of sexual misconduct by several women in 2017 and denies all charges of transgression, told WSJ: “This story is such a human story of power and uprising, capitalism and socialism and more.”
Meanwhile, Rogozinski said to the channel: “I’m putting everything on the table. There will be some extremely shocking things, things that people don’t know about me. “
The 39-year-old started WallStreetBets in 2012 and now has more than 8.5 million users.
On February 2, Rogozinski told presenter Maria Bartiromo: “The little ones can no longer be ignored”, about the GameStop trading frenzy, adding that “the little ones have found a strategic way to react”.
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“They knew that their disadvantage was money and they overcame it,” he continued.
Rogozinski also told Bartiromo that “all over the world, I see that there are many feelings repressed for a while that are just beginning to emerge, so it is absolutely fascinating to watch.”
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Rogozinski argued that “Pandora’s box is open” and “there is no turning back at this point”.
“This took a long time to do,” he added.
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“In the past 10 years, there has been access to Wall Street and the financial markets through the first discount brokers, now free brokers, these application-based brokers that give little ones access to the system and Wall Street,” noted Rogozinski. “For a long time it has been very difficult, expensive and inaccessible.”
Fox Business’s Talia Kaplan contributed to this report.