Plotkin was asked the question by Congressman Steve Stivers, who wondered if Elon Musk's late January tweet about GameStop was targeting him. "We have been short Tesla in the past," Plotkin said.

Plotkin acquired a minority stake in the Hornets in 2019, and he has served as an alternate governor of the NBA Board of Governors. As part of the deal, Jordan will retain a minority stake in the ...

Vanessa Plotkin. Plotkin, a 21-year-old junior from Lakewood in Southern California who was majoring in sociology, moved to Berkeley in August. She’d found a home at Cal, where she roomed with her ...

Gabe Plotkin's Melvin Capital lost 7% in March to close out a dire first quarter. The firm was down almost 49% in the quarter, sources told Insider.

Yet Plotkin continued to work mainly out of his waterfront Miami house and a nearby Melvin outpost. Many traders, scattered around the country, came into offices only a couple days a week.

Plotkin added in the Sunday email that after speaking with investors he realized his suggestion to shut down Melvin was “tone deaf.” Melvin Capital got slammed last year for its position on ...

After a spurt of losses and fraught talks with clients, Plotkin abruptly announced in May that he’s winding down Melvin Capital Management, a firm that had multiplied his wealth, leaving ...

Plotkin, though mentioned in the trial, also escaped charges. When he left to set up his own firm, Melvin Capital, in 2014, “Cohen wrote his protégé a $200m cheque to get him off the ground”.

Gabe Plotkin is going back to the drawing board. After facing vocal criticism from some investors over an ill-conceived plan to reboot his beleaguered hedge fund, the founder of Melvin Capital ...

Plotkin got a $200 million check from Cohen to start his own firm in 2014, and more last year when he ran into trouble with meme-stock traders. Have a confidential tip for our reporters? Get in Touch ...

Plotkin, 72, was found dead in his Glover Park apartment on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019. Days had passed and no one had heard from Plotkin, who had been ill with cancer but always made a point to still ...

Plotkin started at the Voice in 1978, and during his tenure was the designated editor-handler for many of the paper’s most prominent—and cantankerous—writers, including Alexander Cockburn ...