Billionaire Lee Ainslie is Telling Investors that his $6 Billion Maverick Capital is ‘Poised to Take Advantage’ of the Post-GameStop-Frenzy Market (Business Insider) While billionaire Lee Ainslie was not an immediate winner following the GameStop-fueled market volatility of last week, he told investors the aftermath of the “Reddit/WallStreetBets war” gave his $6 billion hedge fund with a lot of opportunities. There have been several examples of immediate Wall Street wins thanks to the Reddit-driven short squeeze that retail traders ran against hedge funds like Melvin Capital, Maplelane Capital, and D1 Capital, such as Senvest Management‘s $700 million gain on GameStop and Silver Lake‘s $113 million profit on AMC.
The Capitol Riot and the Capital Riot both ended the same way: the misguided joe sixpacks who jumped aboard got fucked hard, while the establishment insiders they were purportedly fighting against emerged stronger than ever.