Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Post!
From one of our most innovative and celebrated authors, the definitive
take on the wildest story of the year-- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop
short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won and lost overnight that may end up
changing Wall Street forever.
Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account
of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet
trolls on a subreddit called WallStreetBets took down one of the biggest
hedge funds on Wall Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that
threatens to upend the establishment.
It's the story of financial titans like Gabe Plotkin of hedge fund
Melvin Capital, one of the most respected and staid funds on the Street,
billionaires like Elon Musk, Steve Cohen, Mark Cuban, Robinhood co-CEOs
Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, and Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities. Over
the course of four incredible days, each in their own way must reckon
with a formidable force they barely understand, let alone saw coming:
everyday men and women on WallStreetBets like nurse Kim Campbell,
college student Jeremy Poe, and the enigmatic Keith "RoaringKitty" Gill,
whose unfiltered livestream videos captivated a new generation of stock
market enthusiasts.
The unlikely focus of the battle: GameStop, a flailing brick-and-mortar
dinosaur catering to teenagers and outsiders that had somehow held on as
the world rapidly moved online. At first, WallStreetBets was a joke--a
meme-filled, freewheeling place to share shoot-the-moon investment tips,
laugh about big losses, and post diamond hand emojis. Until some members
noticed an opportunity in GameStop--and rode a rocket ship to tens of
millions of dollars in earnings overnight.
In thrilling, pulse-pounding prose, THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK offers a
fascinating, never-before-seen glimpse at the outsize personalities,
dizzying swings, corporate drama, and underestimated American heroes and
heroines who captivated the nation during one of the most volatile weeks
in financial history. It's the amazing story of what just happened--and
where we go from here.
