Hunter Kahn could have bought the 1990s Corvette he’s always wanted with the Wall Street windfall he and a group of amateur day traders earned by joining forces to turn the failing video-game seller GameStop into an overnight stock market darling.
But the 20-year-old Cornell University mechanical engineering student from Minnesota said he saw the bonanza as a chance to do something good. He said he cashed out $30,000 of the GameStop stock he bought at $30 to $80 a share last month and used part of the proceeds to buy a bunch of Nintendo Switch Lite handheld consoles and video games from GameStop stores, of course, and donated them to patients at Children’s Minnesota hospital.
“I wanted my donations to be GameStop purchases since this is how it all started, and there’s no one more deserving of Nintendo Switches than some kids going through a hard time,” Kahn told ABC News in a video interview.
Officials at Children’s Minnesota told ABC News that the surprise contribution Kahn made to their donation box this week has already put smiles on the faces of sick children being treated at the Minneapolis hospital.
“We’re grateful for donations that help bring joy to kids at our hospitals, especially during these challenging times,” hospital officials said in a statement to ABC News on Wednesday. “The generosity of our community makes a difference to kids whose worlds have been turned upside down because of a health crisis.”
He said he had to go to several GameStop stores to buy nine Nintendo Switches and nine video games to give to Children’s Minnesota hospital.
“I know that a lot of my friends, a lot of people around me in my community, have spent time at Children’s,” Kahn said of why he chose to donate to the hospital.
He said he showed up at the hospital this week unannounced with the video-game haul.
He said it’s “amazing to hear” the patients at Children’s Minnesota are already using the gaming devices.
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(Photo courtesy of Hunter Kahn)
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