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Most of you will have heard about the GameStop saga. Shares in a fledgling company on it's way to oblivian suddenly began to climb against all of Wall Street's expectations. Many Hedge Funds bet against the stock, but Redditors had other ideas. In this podcast we explore the stories, characters; winners and losers behind what was undoubtadly a middle finger to the institutions of Wall Street. In his latest book, Ben Mezrich chronicles the drama as it unfolded in the biggest f@$% you in financial history.
About Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich is the multiple New York Times Best Selling Author, the most notable being Accidental Billionaires - which inspired the the Oscar winning film - The Social Network. He's famed for bringing to life the stories and lives of those behind the biggests shifts in popular culture. His latest book, The Anti-Social Network, chronicles the characters behind the GameStop saga, where thousands of people in a Reddit community pumped money into a stock that Wall Street had decided was going to fail... causing it to do the opposite.
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