By Ellen Cans
Jaime Rogozinski created the Reddit page WallStreetBets in 2012.
When he began the online community, he was a single man working as a consultant. The Reddit page is now a force to be reckoned with, taking on enormous Hedge funds on Wall Street. Rogozinski is still the founder, and a writer, but he is no longer associated with the virtual mob named WallStreetBets. The 39-year-old, now lives in Mexico City working as an IT consultant.
Last Thursday, the NY Post announced that Rogozinski has sold his life story to director Brett Ratner’s film production company. RatPac Entertainment, already has an impressive roster, which includes hits such as “Wonder Woman” and “Dunkirk”. RatPac paid somewhere in “the low six figures” for exclusive access to Rogozinski’s story and plans to turn the WallStreetBet Founder’s saga into a movie, podcasts and other projects, as per the WSJ. “This story is such a human story of power and uprising, capitalism and socialism, and so much more,” Ratner said.
In 2016, Rogozinski married Alejandra Uribe, a physician in Mexico. The next year, the couple had twin sons, Julian and Leonardo. Rogozinski is now unwittingly getting attention for the aggressive trading activity happening on Wall Street through the online community. But, while Jaime Rogozinski created the subreddit, he was removed from it in April 2020, and there has been no further association between him and the page.
The community grew into something beyond anyone’s control—expanding from a few hundred members to 8.5 million users, as per the NY Post. Last month, the message board squeezed hedge funds by banding together to spike up GameStop’s stock price. Rogozinski reportedly compared the online uprising to a “train wreck” or a horror movie.
In an interview with the WSJ, Rogozinski expressed no regrets as to having been forced to leave his own group. He noted a corner forming within the subreddit, which he at first tried to ignored but couldn’t tolerate for long. He spoke of a racist group that he found lurking outside of Reddit, semi associated with the community. The chat room on Discord had white supremacists who would engage in racist speech and spew hateful words. The group troubled Rogozinski, who is a Jew, which eventually led him to ban some individuals and delete the discord group. As per Celebs in Depth, this banning, as well as his constant promotion of his book, led the other page moderators to gang up against Rogozinski, and kick him off the community he created.
