I looked into the GoPro acquisition. Something’s weird…

Something very strange just happened to GoPro. Markiplier posted a sponsored GoPro video, and just days later, the world found out he had quietly become the company’s largest shareholder with an 8.5% stake. The stock exploded, rising 46% and then another 80% the next day. Then, almost immediately, GoPro announced a $285 million merger with a company called Starman Optical, which had literally been incorporated the day before. Naturally, people started asking whether Markiplier had somehow pumped the stock, but the real story is much stranger. GoPro had been struggling badly, with gross margins collapsing from 32% to just 4% in a year as soaring memory costs hammered its camera business. And Starman wasn’t really interested in GoPro because of action cameras. Buried inside the deal is a photonics business focused on optical transceivers for AI data centers, while Starman’s owners are set to control roughly 90% of the combined public company. So this “merger” starts looking less like someone buying GoPro and more like an AI infrastructure company using GoPro as its unusual shortcut onto the stock market. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hariharan-jayakumar-silo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hariharan.jayakumar/ TimeStamps: 0:00 - GoPro Introduction 1:00 - Largest Investor 6:47 - The State of GoPro 10:51 - Starman(s) Sources: https://pastebin.com/sWpayAWd

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