Student makes $110mn trading meme stock favourite Bed Bath & Beyond

The 20-year old student is now worth an estimated $110 million after selling his entire stake in Bed Bath & Beyond

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which rose dramatically during last month's frenzy similar to last year’s meme stock boom.

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Jake Freeman, an applied mathematics and economics major at the University of Southern California (USC), acquired nearly 5mn shares in Bed Bath & Beyond over summer months

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after its earnings report showed discouraging results for investors. He bought his stake less than $5/share--a price that would have been fair enough

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if it were just one company but not when you're talking about allocating capital onto two different exchanges with four firms involved!

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As things started looking bleak on Wall Street again last week due to another round capitalize CEO ouster plus some other reasons

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After selling the shares, Freeman went for dinner with his parents in New York City where they live and on Wednesday he flew to Los Angeles.

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He said that initially stake cost about 25 million dollars which was mostly raised from friends or family members through crowdfunding campaigns

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His uncle Dr Scott freeman worked at a pharmaceutical company before going onto become an executive producer of Mind Medicine Inc

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another publicly traded firm headquartered just outside Chicago--Mindmedicine has been around since 2007 so its clearly doing something right!

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