Vlad Tenev

And I didn't think that it was particularly notable at the time because you've seen chatter about so many different stocks and so many things happening.

But yeah, there was this guy who...

Deep fucking value was his handle.

So later it turned out that this guy was a financial professional.

He worked for some company in Massachusetts, but he started making videos, videos analyzing GameStop.

And one of the things that he noticed was Ryan Cohen, who is the founder of Chewy, a pet food company that did very, very well.

I think it sold to Amazon for a large amount of money.

And Ryan Cohen had then bought GameStop shares, right?

This was part of the fundamental analysis that he did.

The thesis was something like Ryan Poe and smart guy, very business savvy.

He's getting more involved in this company.

He's seeing some value here.

So maybe we should all be watching.

And then he bought some shares and he started building up a following.

And what happened was GameStop started ticking up, started building more of a fan base.

And then January hit.

And January was a huge inflection point in retail activity.

And so what happened was it wasn't just GameStop, but GameStop was a big story.

Dogecoin, which is one of the cryptocurrencies, started going gangbusters.

And what happened was, you know, GameStop would tick up.