Ryan Cohen on executive compensation
From GAMESTOP CEO RYAN COHEN INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY POMPLIANO · · Roaring Cory
“The CEO is making close to 30 million annually. The CEO, by the way, has bought zero dollars of stock uh in the open market since he's been CEO for for close to six years. So, it's not attractive to them. It's very attractive to shareholders. Um but it's not attractive to them. and um they're you know it's it's anticipated their reaction in terms of uh you know they're they're they're not owners they're employees collecting a paycheck.”
On , Ryan Cohen, Co-Founder at Chewy, spoke about executive compensation during GAMESTOP CEO RYAN COHEN INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY POMPLIANO on Roaring Cory.
About Ryan Cohen
In May 2026, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen launched a public bid to acquire eBay for approximately $55 billion, offering $125 per share in a half-cash, half-stock structure. Cohen described eBay as the second-largest e-commerce franchise and said he saw an opportunity to "pull costs out of the system" and "accelerate revenue growth." He stated that the combined company could become a competitor to Amazon. Cohen said GameStop had a 5% stake in eBay, making it one of the company's largest shareholders, and argued that eBay's board had a fiduciary duty to evaluate the proposal. Cohen was critical of eBay's management and board, describing them as "employees collecting a paycheck" with "perverse financial incentives." He said eBay's operating expenses of over $5.5 billion on $11 billion in revenue were excessive for an asset-light business and committed to $2 billion in cost cuts. Cohen contrasted this with his own record at GameStop, stating that when he joined the board the company was losing "hundreds of millions of dollars" per quarter and that it had since become profitable, with SG&A reduced by $800 million. He said he had not taken any compensation from GameStop and that he should not be paid "if I don't deliver results." Cohen characterized skepticism about the deal as "positive" and said that if most people think a deal "isn't going to work, it's probably going to work."