The unlikely hero who crashed Wall Street and made millions – then vanished
Keith Gill was an unlikely Pied Piper who made millions for himself and others when he shook up Wall Street in 2021. Now he is nowhere to be found.
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Keith Gill was an unlikely Pied Piper who made millions for himself and others when he shook up Wall Street in 2021. Now he is nowhere to be found.
In 2021, he was hailed as an investing champion, now he’s the subject of a Hollywood film. But despite making millions, he’s nowhere to be found.
Keith Gill was an unlikely revolutionary. His T-shirts featured cats in sunglasses, his red headband made him look like a cross between peak-era John McEnroe and Cousin Greg from Succession, and his YouTube videos were long, dry analyses of corporate stocks. But revolutionary is exactly what he unwittingly became at the start of 2021, when his advice to buy shares in the videogame store chain GameStop made fortunes for a ragtag army of small individual investors and helped send a handful of larg
His championing of GameStop shares brought hedge funds to their knees and made him a fortune. But why did he do it – and where has he gone?
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