Ryan Cohen brings vision to struggling GameStop. Now, he must deliver
The Grapevine-based video game company is in a strong position financially to execute Cohen’s plan.
Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen will become GameStop s board chairman at the company s annual shareholders meeting on June 9.(Charlie Neibergall)
Perhaps no one, not even the day-trading hero they call Roaring Kitty, is more responsible for the improbable 700% rally in GameStop Corp. this year than Ryan Cohen.
At 35 years old, Cohen is a billionaire entrepreneur with a reputation for a Midas touch after building the pet-supply site he co-founded Chewy into a booming business. So when word got out in mid-January that he had secured three seats on GameStop’s board after amassing a 13% stake, shares of the video-game retailer exploded.
Ryan Cohen Maps Out GameStop Turnaround Plan
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(Bloomberg) Perhaps no one, not even the day traders’ hero called Roaring Kitty, is more responsible for the improbable 700% rally in GameStop Corp. this year than Ryan Cohen.
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At 35 years old, Cohen is a billionaire entrepreneur with a reputation for a Midas touch after building the pet-supply site he co-founded Chewy into a booming business. And so when word got out in mid-January that he had secured three seats on GameStop’s board after amassing a 13% stake, shares of the video-game retailer exploded. What had just been something of a run-of-the-mill outperformance in the bull market turned into a parabolic surge overnight.
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