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Netflix Gave An Unproven Director $55 Million For A Sci-Fi Series, And He Blew It On Rolls-Royces, Crypto, And Dodgy Stock Bets (jalopnik.com)

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[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When Netflix acquiesced and wired the money, Rinsch sent most of it directly to his personal Charles Schwab account, and made big bets on biotech firm Gilead Sciences, and on shorting the S&P 500 index. In just a few weeks he’d lost $5.9 million. Cutting his losses, Rinsch pulled $4 million from his Schwab account and put it directly into Dogecoin. Wow, such invest.

Hahaha they gave $millions to a guy from r/wallstreetbets

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He turned the $4m doge into like $17m didn't he?

[–] gnurd@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

$27m actually lol.

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Perfect. Haha

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

I don't know, but that would mean he was luckier, not less stupid.