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By Akane Otani | Photographs by Luis Antonio Rojas for The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n
The man who created Reddit\u2019s WallStreetBets isn\u2019t who you think he is.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s 39 years old. He lives in Mexico City with his wife, a physician, and spends his weeks chasing after their 3-year-old twins and tending to his day job as a consultant\u2014hardly the sort of character one might associate with the roiling investing forum.<\/p>\n
He never imagined the Reddit community he created in 2012 would morph into a force so powerful that it would send GameStop Corp. shares into overdrive, nearly topple a hedge fund and leave professional money managers around the country staring at Twitter with their mouths agape.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little like watching one of those horror films where you can see the bad guy slowly going up the stairs,\u201d Jaime Rogozinski said. \u201cYou see this train wreck happening in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Rogozinski started WallStreetBets while working as an information technology consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. Back then, he was single, making a decent living and looking for something to put some play money into. The only problem was the conventional wisdom of sticking with index-tracking funds bored him.<\/p>\n