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Viral stories in Instragram | GameStop It has been in the news for a few days because of the spectacular rise of its shares on the stock exchange. This came after thousands of netizens agreed to simultaneously buy shares in the company to raise the price and hurt short investors, who lost US $ 3.3 billion last Friday 29.
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One of the young people who took part in this operation and was born into a Reddit group called ‘Wallstreetbets’ was Hunter Kahn, a mechanical engineering student at Cornell University in the United States. After his adventure in the massive purchase, the young it was made of nearly $ 30,000 in shares. Kahn told CNN he joined in to show it “The Greats of Wall Street” they were wrong.
Despite his financial obligations to the university where he is studying, one of his first decisions was to use some of the money he earned in the stock market to donate consoles and video games from Nintendo Switch to patients at Children’s Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis, USA. Helping the children at the Minnesota hospital was even more rewarding, she said, than making thousands of dollars.
“As a beneficiary of the recent events on the Wall Street Stock Exchange, it is important to me that I and others involved in this successful operation let’s share our happiness. These events have exposed a lot of corruption and with this transfer of power it is important that we do not become men in suits “the young man wrote in an post on his Instagram account.
“I’m proud to be humble donation of six Nintendo Switch and video games to accompany the little ones admitted to the Children’s Minnesota Hospital. I can not stop. This does not stop “Kahn added in the post that went viral to refer to the donation made, which is estimated at more than $ 2,000, according to the Children’s Minnesota Hospital.
Kahn still has the original 50 shares he bought for $ 30 and said the money will be used to pay for his tuition.