Hedge-Fund Guy Lurks Around Drake’s House Trying to Pump a Stock

Eric Jackson is standing on the sidewalk in front of the gates of Drake’s 50,000-square-foot Toronto mansion, trying to harness some of the hip-hop star’s buzz to push a money-losing tech company to the moon.

The Canadian hedge-fund manager only oversees a few million dollars, and he has staked much of it on Opendoor Technologies Inc., a once-promising Zillow rival that by June had become just another penny stock.