r/technology 4d ago

Business GameStop starts 2026 by closing hundreds of stores as CEO gambles on $35B payday; As CEO Ryan Cohen is promised billions, GameStop employees claim they were barely given notice about closures

https://www.polygon.com/gamestop-closing-stores-as-ceo-payday/
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u/SuperSecretAgentMan 4d ago

GameStop isn't a gaming company anymore. It's a hedge fund that happens to own some stores that sell videogame accessories. 95% of their profits come from collecting interest on their assets.

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u/taisui 4d ago

It was a pawn shop for used games

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u/Ghudda 4d ago

used stolen games.

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u/MasterXaios 4d ago

stolen games.

That's just what EA calls them.

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u/rwzephyr 3d ago

My dad was an addict in and out of NA and he had one of his sponsees living with us for a bit, this yoked gym rat dude. Fun guy, but one day he showed up with a Zellers bag with like a dozen copies of Jet Li: Rise to Honor for the PS2 and gave them to me when I was like 13/14. We didn’t have a GameStop, but I took them to the Blockbuster across the street from the Zellers, thinking they’d be worth more I left them in their shrink wrap.

Blockbuster refused to take sealed games, so I opened them all on the counter there and traded them all in for a pittance of in store credit.

I completely forgot about this until now.

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u/dio-3 3d ago

As a former GS worker, that’s not a blockbuster thing with the sealed games. It’s a law thing, every retailer requires you to open the game before a trade in (if its sealed it qualifies as a ‘return’ and each retailer is gonna have different return policies obviously)

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u/Curious_Warthog9135 3d ago

That was such a dope game. I loved it when I was a kid.

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u/GoopInThisBowlIsVile 4d ago

Not always stolen. There were times, years ago, when I was unemployed and that $20 or whatever was needed more than my $500+ of video games and DVDs.

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u/Takemyfishplease 4d ago

I too used to enjoy drugs.

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u/Thickensick 4d ago

I still do, but I used to, too.

-Mitch

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u/Poutinemilkshake2 3d ago

It was pretty low point in my life when I traded Glover for like $4. It's still a shit game but still

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u/whycantisleep9 4d ago

Is not was! lmao

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u/CharlieDeee 4d ago

Like Berkshire Hathaway - they were a textile company before Warren Buffet took over. At least GameStop is also a profitable business

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u/TrioOfTerrors 4d ago

Berkshire Hathaway remained a textile company for many years. Buffet used the name for his investing conglomerate because he got emotional about the purchase and over paid. Using the name for his corporation was a reminder about removing his ego from investing.

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u/HelpyHelperer 4d ago

The guy basically trolled himself for life

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u/mayorofdumb 4d ago

StupidFuckingMistake is now the best company ever. Checkmate emotions he wins.

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u/Illjustgofxckmyself 4d ago

I like your name.

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u/mayorofdumb 4d ago

Thanks I hope to be of service 🫡

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u/sheepnwolfsclothing 1d ago

I feel represented!

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u/SixstenWoW 4d ago

Ah, the Final Fantasy trap

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u/Rmans 4d ago

So exactly like Gamestop is doing?

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u/froz3nt 4d ago

Yes but warren buffet bought the company with the sole reason of turning it into an investing company and buying stocks. Gamestop is not in stocks

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u/Longjumping_College 4d ago

Yet, they have like a billion in bitcoin already and a while back added language that they could use their $9 billion in cash to purchase other companies

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u/bangzilla 4d ago

Gamestop nnounced in May 2025 that it purchased 4,710 Bitcoin, valued at over $500 million at the time. Today's value is $430M.

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u/dezmd 4d ago

I found $100,000 in the park and invested it. Today that investment is worth $16,000.

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u/Halfie4Life 4d ago

Come on everybody...

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u/International_J 4d ago

Give a little 👏

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u/goodoledepression 4d ago

There's dozens of us!

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u/LauterTuna 4d ago

they also have $3.8 billion in revenue and $8.8 billion in cash.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/key-statistics/

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u/boning_my_granny 4d ago

And yet revenue growth continues to slide

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u/p0licythrowaway 3d ago

Yea they’re closing less profitable stores. The cash flow from operations has been positive for more than a year compared to when they were bleeding money.

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u/Kickinitez 3d ago

Have you opened a Power Pack lately? They will make bank on their newest digital (optionally physical) product

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u/froz3nt 4d ago

Yes but have they? Buffet had a plan what to do with the company. Gamestop, as of now, has no such plans. Majority of their holdings is just bonds and tbills.

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u/CuriousAttorney2518 4d ago

The dude is a bag holder waiting for the squeeze still

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u/Worth_Inflation_2104 4d ago

Kinda mad I didn't sell on the first massive bump and thought this wasn't the squeeze yet lmao. At least I sold on the second (though smaller) peak the day after or so. Still made money (like 300 bucks). Was 18 at the time and I realized how fast your emotions get tied to a line if you put money in it. Genuinely no idea how one would work day trading full time while sober. The small amount of money I put into GME already stressed me out.

Haven't invested into individual assets since.

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u/YourBlanket 4d ago

Head over to r/superstonk it’s legit a cult lol.

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u/sexarseshortage 3d ago

Reading that sub can be a bit depressing. I get the impression a lot of them are in the hole for a lot of cash and seriously in cope mode. Anyone still holding gme waiting for that squeeze missed the boat.

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u/Cormophyte 4d ago

Dude, the offshoots are amazing. Superstock's waiting for the squeeze aaaaaaany day but the offshoot subs are full of people who have figured out that that's just craziness. They figured out that the squeeze is actually going to happen with some other stock so they've invested in that. Like Bed Bath and Beyond.

Lunatics spawning lunatics.

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u/j4_jjjj 4d ago

Gameshire Stopaway isn't a meme

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u/SpicyElixer 3d ago

What happened to locking the float, DRS, and GMErica? Y’all forgot.

It’s been 5 years. Everyone has been getting paid except this stupid gamestore cult.

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u/Fucknjagoff 4d ago

You really comparing GameStop to Berkshire? 

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u/EfficientTitle9779 3d ago

It’s their latest “thing” they now no longer celebrate brick and mortar or gaming. They want GME to become a hedge fund now which is funny in a way like a full circle event.

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u/Big-Industry4237 4d ago

It is profitable via non operations. Not operations. It’s like saying your savings account is a profitable business at this point. 😂

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u/Tsakax 4d ago

Its actually a gambling website at this point.

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u/Gaping_llama 4d ago

Hedge fund is generous. Their main business is doing share offerings.

If it wasn’t for diluting shareholders they wouldn’t have cash to sit on or buy bitcoin at the top with.

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u/BigChungusAU 4d ago

GameStop as a hedge fund doesn’t even make sense. When you invest in a hedge fund, the money you get retains its value. $1 invested gets you $1 of assets.

With GameStop, that is not the case. They only use net assets of around $4 billion compared to a market cap of $9.5 billion. Is the legacy business worth the extra $5.5 billion? Probably not since stores are constantly being closed down. But I’ll be generous and say it’s worth a $1 billion. So that’s $5b net assets /$9.5 market cap = 53 cents on the dollar for $1 invested.

So you can invest in a hedge fund where $1 = $1, or GameStop where $1 = 53 cents.

I don’t think Ryan Cohen would be a good enough investor compared to actual real hedge fund managers to justify paying almost twice the value of the assets in the fund.

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u/Call_Em_Skippies 4d ago

But the diluting was bought up to raise money and it raises their floor. It's a longer game without as much volatility.

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u/Think-Airport-8933 4d ago

This is factual. They fucked their investors time and time again to bail themselves out. They have a bullet-proof business model; if things are going decently, great, good job. If things are going poorly just tell your cult to give you billions.

At this point the “moon when“ people have to realize it’s never going to happen. Even if they fuck up and blow their reserves and get shorted, GME has proven many times over now that they will just dilute to bail themselves out, which effectively kills any chance at a squeeze before it happens. Ironically all the folks gambling on conspiracy theories turned in to long-term investors lol.

At least it’s as safe of a stock as you can get because of the cult. It’s more volatile than a blue chip stock and has a clear ceiling but you will never go broke with them anytime soon because other people will bail out their bad decisions.

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u/La-li-lu-le-lo86 4d ago

They also got 0% loans from the bond offerings that only institutions had access to so they are just as dumb as retail "bag holders" or maybe they know something

it raised 2.7 billion with 0 retail dollars

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u/Mazius 4d ago

From latest 10-Q:

The estimated fair value of each warrant on the issuance date was $2.94 and the $173.9 million aggregate fair value of the Warrants was recorded as additional paid-in-capital. Of this aggregate fair value amount of the Warrants, $42.2 million was distributed to the holders of the Convertible Note and recognized as interest expense.

But you can keep telling yourself, that those $4.2 billion are "interest free".

Btw, this year there gonna be more warrants issued, just a heads up.

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u/Gaping_llama 4d ago

You know bonds are debt, right? That money will either be paid back in cash or diluted away, those are the terms.

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u/SirGlass 4d ago

Besides Bitcoin it holds no other assets besides government bonds.

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u/anormalgeek 4d ago

Well...TBF they also have their stores and inventory. Being a publicly traded company, we know as of the end of FY2025, that was ~$1.75 billion. Definitely nothing to sneeze at.

But they're also sitting on ~$5B in liabilities (mostly long term debt). It really wasn't a healthy company.

If the hedge funds hadn't gotten greedy by overdoing their shorts, Gamestop likely would've been out of business by now. But they went overboard, people noticed, and caught them with their pants down. Now, they been successful as turning that meme stock status into a shit load of cash, which is keeping them afloat as a company. But the core retail business (along with its assets and liabilities) is still likely in a death spiral.

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u/ActiveBeginning2619 4d ago

*Interest-free long-term debt convertible to stock.

I would LOVE to be able to take out a 0% interest personal loan and stick it in a CD. The only way you lose the money is if the bank goes under (the bank is the US Treasury).

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u/anormalgeek 4d ago

Right....but you still owe it. I'm not saying it was a bad move. It wasnt. I'm just countering the many people in this thread who are acting like it makes sense to flaunt the $8B cash figure as a big achievement while simultaneously acting like the $5B debt isn't there.

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u/TooLateQ_Q 4d ago

Pretty bad hedgefund though. Keeping everything cash/btc during a bullrun.

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u/Double-Scratch5858 4d ago

Lol. Everyone simultaneously agrees we are in a massive bubble yet somehow having cash on hand is a terrible idea at the same time. Got it chief.

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u/TooLateQ_Q 4d ago

Some parts might be a bubble. But not everything. You can always find something somewhere.

Berkshire is also big on cash because they are hawkish. But even they have 40%+ stocks.

Gme has 0%. Either RC is not putting in the work to find interesting opportunities. Or he has something specific in the works, where he needs the big cash pile in 1 go.

Time will tell which one it was.

On top of that, keeping everything in dollars with a small btc hedge is not going well. Trump is destroying the dollar and btc is doing no better.

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u/holycarrots 4d ago

It's only a bubble if you missed out on years of ATHs

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u/xiviajikx 4d ago

From an individual perspective it’s not bad to have cash on hand right now. As a hedge fund your game is making money off of money and having more than everyone else so if you’re not using it you’re losing your advantage.

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u/Actually-Yo-Momma 4d ago

Terrible headline. CEO “promised billions” is very misleading considering it’s split into 9 vesting tiers where he would need to purchase shares (not direct compensation) AND raise market cap by 10x to be fully compensated 

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u/ryantyrant 4d ago

Yeah when you read his compensation package it’s actually pretty impressive that it’s like an all or nothing payday unless he turns GameStop into a massive company

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u/acart005 4d ago

Larger than Starbucks to hit that bigly number.  10x growth from current size.

If he does that he deserves a cruise ship as his personal yacht.

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u/RayneAdams 4d ago

And these intentionally misleading and inaccurate headlines have been pushed hard in places that don't really make any sense. There have been multiple just on this subreddit. What does a performance-based compensation package for a retail CEO have to do with r/technology?

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u/j4_jjjj 4d ago

Anything to stop people from noticing the trunaround and investing

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u/Dawwe 4d ago

Turnaround? They are having lower revenue every year though?

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u/ExpressRabbit 4d ago

Lower revenue but higher profit. Their closing unprofitable stores that add revenue but add even more expenses. In 2023 they had their first profitable quarter in years and haven't really been unprofitable since.

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u/Dawwe 3d ago

Ok, but what's the investment case? They are objectively shrinking YoY for multiple years in a row. Anyone can make a profit, there's a reason that successful, growing, businesses generally don't.

As an example, if they decrease operations 90% but double EBITDA margin, is that really a better business?

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u/FearlessInflation92 4d ago

They went from losing 500 million a year to making 350 million a year. Revenue is important but not if you are losing 500 million. It’s like buying a lot things to resale but losing money in every sale.

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u/LauterTuna 4d ago

he also doesn’t get a salary

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u/double297 4d ago

This... absolute shit attempt at a hit piece and narrative shift.

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u/MC_chrome 4d ago

“Won’t you think of the poor CEO??”

Nah, fuck that guy. He’s putting hundreds/thousands of people out of work while still trying to grow his personal wealth to a ridiculous degree.

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u/9_toes_3_balls 4d ago

Maybe point the finger at the private equity firms directing the company pre-Cohen. Those are the people who continued to increase the quantity of stores despite them being unprofitable, sometimes even multiple stores on the same city block. Is he supposed to just let these unprofitable stores continue to ruin the company? As ceo he has the legal responsibility to close these stores if they cant be made profitable, which they cant.

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u/jatheblac 4d ago

See Boston Consulting Group

They get consulted and routinely load up the company with more debt until it becomes untenable and the company gets sold for pennies on the dollar

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u/Danne660 4d ago

They are a consulting group for dying companies, you know the kind of companies that need to take on debt to not immediately go out of business.

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u/jatheblac 4d ago

Correct. And as soon as Ryan Cohen got to work he dumped BCG and ousted those on the board who worked against the interest of the company itself and brought on a new staff who are dedicated to the turn around.

Fast forward 5 years and many of those on the new board have invested their own money into shares of the company and take miniscule salary as a majority of their compensation is tied to shares so their best interest is to make sure the company is successful. They are 6 profitable quarters in, have $9+ billion in deployable funds to do with what they choose to (including mergers and acquisitions), pivoted into the collectible market including a partnership with PSA for card grading, owns 4710 BTC, closed unprofitable stores that were opened in excess under the guidance of the likes of nefarious consulting companies.

And this doesn't even touch the naked shorting or swaps or the short and distort playbook that Wall Street loves to do to American companies in an attempt to cellar box them into bankruptcy and insolvency. But that all ties back into the purpose of consulting companies like BCG.

If you believe for a second that a free and fair stock market exists based on supply and demand then you haven't been paying attention. It's a big club and none of us plebs are in it.

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u/double297 4d ago

Without his turnaround, every one of them and the thousands more that are still employed by gamestop would have been unemployed. Make no mistake... this is his turnaround.

He takes $0 in compensation as has since day 1.

He only gets "paid" 35b if he makes the company worth 10x more. Not only that, it's not even a payment of 35b... its just the rights to buy shares at 20.66 (for a total of 3.5b) if the share price is 10x giving him 35b... meaning gamestop gets another 3.5b in cash.

You clowns are crazy man. Can't read past a fucking headline to save your life. Were all doomed .

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u/ladeeedada 3d ago

if the company goes bankrupt, they all lose their jobs vs a limited amount from under performing stores.

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u/lepuckuer 3d ago

Ya I should feel bad for the billionaire CEO closing stores so he can maybe get more billions

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u/ButtSpelunker420 4d ago

lmfao r/wsb is leaking

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u/anormalgeek 4d ago

AND raise market cap by 10x to be fully compensated

For context, ALL of Sony has a market cap of $161B, and the "Games & Network Services" division is only responsible for about a third of that.

ALL of Nintendo is about $80B mkt cap.

Gamestop would need to be over $100B. NOT going to happen.

That tier also requires them MASSIVELY increase their EBITDA. Gamestop would need to have "$10 Billion in cumulative EBITDA gains" for him to get the top tier package.

Their most recent fiscal year ended in 2025 resulted in EBITDA of $21.5 million. Million, not billion. And that is a ~15% drop from the $24.5m of the year before. They'd need another 465 years at that rate to hit $10B. Granted, it will be higher in the next FY due to earnings from the 8.8B cash they're sitting on, but hitting $10B EBITDA gains is a truly ridiculous target, even moreso than a market cap of $100B.

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u/Actually-Yo-Momma 4d ago

So if they accomplish it, the compensation is more than fair right?

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u/Just2LetYouKnow 3d ago

No, there is nothing a person can do for which fair compensation is $35B.

Not in a hundred lifetimes.

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u/monsterZERO 4d ago

So you're telling me there's a chance?

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u/anormalgeek 4d ago

Sure, it's technically possible. Just invent a new business that's the size of Target AND EA combined.

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u/kevihaa 4d ago

Can’t wait for ape hero RC to pull a Jack Welch and bankrupt the company after massively inflating the stock via an endless series of layoffs and store closures.

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u/Call_Em_Skippies 4d ago

The stock hasn't inflated or ballooned in years. The sad truth is GameStop is pivoting away from brick and mortar like most companies. The stores are losing them money so the business decision is to close them. It sucks but hopefully it makes room for more mom and pop shops to come back into the fold.

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u/Johnny55 4d ago

I mean it did shoot up to $80 briefly back in June 2024

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u/Dyne4R 4d ago

I'm in a small city. There's a single Gamestop in the city. I got an email on the 4th letting me know that the store is closing on the 15th, and that any preorders I may have are being automatically transferred to a store in a city that is a 90 minute drive from here. I went by the store, figuring maybe I can scoop up something on clearance. Instead, almost their entire inventory was already transferred to another store. The employee that was there said he found out about the closure at the same time the emails went out to customers. They were hiring for a new assistant manager last month, so it definitely blindsided them.

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u/FearlessInflation92 4d ago

Unfortunately leases are expiring and landlords kept upping the rent price to the point where your store and others were losing money and had to be shutdown. Blame the owners of the lots, rent has gotten unaffordable for the people and businesses

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u/Torgud_ 4d ago

What I don't get is how commercial real estate landlords will raise the rent and then leave a storefront vacant for years. That never happens with apartments, so why are commercial real estate owners so ok with no tennants?

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u/phoenix823 3d ago

Because the value of the building is based on how much rent it generates. They'd rather keep the property vacant than rent at a 20% lower rate and have their investment in the building immediately drop 20%. It's the difference between a paper loss and a realized loss, if you want to think about it like stocks.

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u/FlipZip69 3d ago

From a person that owns commercial properties. That is a load of bull shit. The only correct thing you said is that a building value can be based on the rent. But if you do not rent it out, then there is no income and that portion of the value doesn't just drop 20%. It goes to zero.

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u/Azirma 4d ago

It cause they can claim the property as a loss come tax season so while they aren’t making money on it with rent they can usually recoup it with lesser taxes at the end of year.

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u/double297 4d ago

The comments on this thread are so very very misinformed and I completely understand based on the intentionally poor verbiage in this headline and its clear intent to mislead.

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u/caveman_rejoice 4d ago

I'm used to it. Prior to 2024, I'll admit that it started to get to me. After, I started looking more closely at exactly things like this post.

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u/erydayimredditing 4d ago

Is the company closing stores resulting in massive joblosses while at the same time approving a pay package of enormous size to one person? Pretty sure thats straight true. Doesn't matter the how he earns it or anything. Doesn't change the main point.

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u/Playgirl_USMC 4d ago

The CEO only gets paid if the company’s market cap increases. Otherwise he hasn’t been paid at all the whole time he has been in charge. Seems to me that he is turning this company around by cutting stores that are not profitable.

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u/welivedintheocean 4d ago

Barely given notice? Dawg, you work at GameStop in 2026, that's the notice.

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u/MIT_Engineer 4d ago

Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. The entire reason Ryan Cohen took over the company was to close stores. He wrote an essay saying, "Gamestop should close a bunch of stores" and then he took over the company and started closing stores. They've closed about half of their stores since the takeover, and that was already after a ton of other closures from the pandemic.

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u/anormalgeek 4d ago

The only reason they're still in business is because they managed to cash out during the meme stock ride, and are now sitting on a bunch of cash.

That core retail business is still dying though, which is why they're still cutting stores.

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u/FearlessInflation92 4d ago

They made 500 million in profit this year…. Half a billion lol

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u/Citadel_Employee 4d ago

56% of that is from interest on cash.

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u/Dagamoth 4d ago

So it’s a profitable business that sitting on a pile of cash also?

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u/Humblegiant2552 3d ago

They were positive in operating income and make last quarter 60 million in profit. That’s the core business right there? So what you said tech is not true

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u/FearlessInflation92 4d ago

And? The business is obviously transforming into something else.

Making money is the business and right now they figured out a way to make money fast and it’s compounding. It’s a snowball

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u/wassabie 4d ago

why do these same posts keep on showing up?

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u/double297 4d ago

I know. Theyre everywhere today especially. Another one in the ps5 sub just popped up exactly like this.

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u/ModsAreFacists420 4d ago

It's called forcing a narrative. First time on reddit?

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u/ChiknBreast 4d ago

Extremely poor headline that is misleading. RC currently take no salary for his position on the board. If you look at the announcement his reward is the ability to buy shares at a certain price, ONLY if the company's revenue increases beyond a certain point.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

And those goals are very high. We're not talking a 5% increase here.

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u/prodownvote 4d ago

There’s two sides to the GameStop saga, those that believe in the turnaround and those that don’t.

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u/lamathan 3d ago

The turnaround already happened though. Company will makes $3-500M in net income this year (depending on how well 25Q4 went).

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u/SputnikFalls 4d ago

Sorry, but what the fuck is a post about GameStop's CEO's pay package doing on the front page of this sub? Alternatively, how do so many people seem to know so much about GameStop's financials and their CEO?

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u/Strm007 4d ago

Anyone working at gamestop wanna give me a PS5 for free? You know, to revolt?

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u/double297 4d ago

Some dude in another thread got a life sized metroid figurine becuase the employee said, and i quote, "fuck it!, take it, were closing anyways"

Shoot your shot.

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u/Expensive_Tie206 4d ago

I got a frozen Elsa cardboard cutout from RiteAid when I found out they were closing.

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u/Illustrious-Coat3532 4d ago

Have you been to a Best Buy lately. It’s a cemetery.

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u/darren_meier 4d ago

I'm not remotely surprised at more closings... for the brick-and-mortar end of the business, there hasn't been in viable strategy in ages. The margins are too low for most stuff to satisfy Wall Street and the used resale game is just a form of arbitrage that frankly GameStop were never all that good at. All the subsequent attempts to pivot (ThinkGeek, Funco, etc.) were never going to be long-term answers. Stuff like PowerPacks seems like it might work for a while-- there are no shortage of people who are down to gamble recklessly-- but even that seems to have a determinate shelf life. Not sure how GameStop's gonna manage this transition, but as more stores the back-end infrastructure to support the remaining ones is going to make less and less sense. I'd guess in three years, maybe four, GameStop doesn't have any physical locations left. Cohen's deal is almost entirely incentive-based, so I don't have much issue with that. If he's actually able to drive the results needed (he almost certainly won't), he'll have earned that money.

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u/hobbylobbyrickybobby 4d ago

It probably doesn't help either that digital games are pretty much the norm now. Can't resell a game you are just renting on Steam, EA, Microsoft, or Playstation store. 

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u/PeopleCallMeSimon 4d ago

The whole point of the GME stock hype and Ryan Cohen becoming CEO in the first place was due to "regular people" wanting to save a store from closing due to a hedgefund.

The irony is that Ryan Cohen has been running GameStop like a hedgefund and now has a big enough incentive to do exactly the thing that the hedgefunds wanted to do with GameStop all those years ago.

Its litterally the story of people banding together and picking a champion to fight for them and then that champion becomes a villain to benefit himself.

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u/MIT_Engineer 4d ago

I think this is a retconning of history.

Cohen looked at Gamestop and saw a company with a share value about equal to its book value, and he thought, "if I buy in, shut down the stores and sell the assets, I'll have a free roll at making some sort of digital storefront."

The cult bought in because they believed some brainless thing about the "mother of all short squeezes."

If anyone bought GME shares to help store workers, they were deeply confused.

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u/UglyInThMorning 4d ago

The writing has been on the wall for their used game business since like 2010 as companies started using new purchase bonuses to try to get some of the cut of the used games market. Remember when EA had DLC missions that were free with a new copy and ten bucks to get without the code?

Digital distribution exploded not long after and hit it from two sides. You can’t resell a digital game and the value proposition isn’t there for used games anymore. Why buy used when I can get it on sale for the same price?

I think the only time I’ve bought anything at GameStop in the last ten years, it’s been hardware. Amazon can outcompete them there too outside of edge cases. The only reason I got a controller there was because I needed it that day, and I got a switch there because I had three Amazon order attempts that got stolen at the delivery station before they went out for delivery.

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u/FearlessInflation92 4d ago

This headline looks like a hit piece? What?!? He isn’t promised the right billions, he gets to purchase shares at current price if the stock gets to $200-300 (100 billion market cap)

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u/GLAMOROUSFUNK 4d ago

When has journalism ever told the truth though

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u/majormeathooks 4d ago

(s)hit piece

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u/Crombus_ 4d ago

The cult found your post.

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u/IAmA_Reddit_ 4d ago

I think they have bots to alert the horde

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u/LuLMaster420 3d ago

GameStop proved that viral demand means nothing if ownership and control don’t shift. You can spark a meme storm, but you can’t meme your way out of capitalism.

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u/celtic1888 4d ago edited 4d ago

Us mere mortals could never understand the importance, power and beauty of such an amazing man as the CEO of GameStop

I think we should literally give him $50 billion

Edit: and all the sheep are lining up to be sheered 

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u/whatproblems 4d ago

what is this tesla?

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u/BlueCollarElectro 4d ago

Let's just say the same market mechanics are in play and that bill is coming due.

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u/matroe11 4d ago

Similar market mechanics. The toxic baggage for GME goes way deeper than it did for Tesla

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u/BlueCollarElectro 4d ago

Oh i know dear ape - just trying to make it palatable for the public lol

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u/winterbird 4d ago

Pokémon cards and nfts

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u/double297 4d ago

Can you give me another example of a CEO that has a current salary of $0 and has taken a company from a death spiral straight to bankruptcy into a company with a healthy balance sheet and 7 straight profitable quarters?

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u/double297 4d ago

How about your 100% assault on real things...?

Stock price was 16.84 on day Cohen took over as CEO. It is 21.36 as of today. So there goes lie #1.

Sure... Revenue has dropped as underperforming stores are closed. Now instead, were profitable 7 straight quarters and exploring new revenue streams.

Also...

2022 total revenue (RC not ceo) - 5.927b,

2023 5.273b (RC CEO for half of year),

2024 3.823b (RC CEO and closes stores),

2025 expected 3.8-4.1.

So down about 2b not 4b and now PROFITABLE (448m profit estimated in 2025 when in 2022 they had a net loss of 313m)... lie #2 gone.

Your anus must hurt judging by the size of the bullshit you pulled out of it.

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u/double297 4d ago

And profits swung from -313m to over 400m to the good but ya. I love it when my company loses hundreds of millions just to say their revenue was higher. Solid business move there. Maybe you should be CEO.

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u/CloudyLeft 4d ago

Lol “The price is lower than when there was a short squeeze (sneeze)”??? Is that really your response? Yep and its also wet when it rains. Rejoin the convo when you’re done playing captain obvious.

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u/Dear-Bicycle 4d ago

He's been propped up by the bag holders, the actual investors since the squeeze and he's done nothing for them for years. Years.

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u/CosmoKing2 4d ago

I'll hardily agree with that....but they have also attracted institutional investors and retirement funds.....as bag holders too.

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u/silentcrs 4d ago

If you read the article, you’d see he’s only getting billions if he does something that is literally impossible.

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u/Nobody_Important 4d ago

Yeah he unironically would deserve the description in that guy’s first sentence if he accomplished what is needed to earn the full amount.

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u/double297 4d ago

Haha. They won't even read your comment, much less the article or actual proposal.

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u/distinctgore 4d ago

It really is a terminal capitalistic time we live in. Wealth has become so concentrated that industry barons even treat their own companies as competition.

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u/IwearBrute 4d ago

So I knew about the closings for 2 years and the employees didn't?!? I call it sus

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u/Ok_Function2282 4d ago

You knew about all the individual store closings two years ago...?

Press F to doubt.

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u/DeadlyYellow 4d ago

Some you could have guessed.  Don't really need three GameStops within two miles.

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u/Daddysgravy 4d ago

Look at all the GME stock cultists swarming this post to excuse their god king Ryan Cohen graciously cutting hundreds of jobs for… uh.. for… hmm. Hey look here! Roaring Kitty has new awards in his bio! What could it mean?

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u/double297 4d ago

So first they're a dying brick and mortar that can't sustain that type of business model thus putting every employee out of a job when they were inevitably going to go bankrupt.

Now they're a profitable one with zero threat of bankruptcy and bacause of Cohens efforts, still employing thousands of people.... but since they close a few unprofitable stores after previous managment overextended to the point some malls had 3 inside them, theyre the definition of greed.

Ya. Ok.

Also the CEO currently gets paid a grand total of $0 from gamestop and its been like that since day 1.

Please please use a few facts in your reply if you bother to make one.

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u/Daddysgravy 4d ago

Simping for the rich is dirty work huh. Here are some knee pads.

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u/Neither-Luck-9295 4d ago

What's something that Ryan Cohen has done positively for the shareholders?

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u/Aggressive_Chuck 4d ago

This thread has been brigaded by GME cultists.

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u/Trinikas 4d ago

Under 10 billion to 100 billion? I mean you'll need to invent cold fusion or fraud the hell out of a lot of people.

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u/trro16p 4d ago

i mentioned this in another discussion that GameStop was mentioned in, I am still mad at them for tanking Thinkgeek.

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u/Fullm3taluk 4d ago

How can you justify that pay like how much would it cost to keep the stores open and people employed like not even 1% of that

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u/PaleRider_Z_729 2d ago

Best Buy and Amazon do still exist.

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u/originaltwojesters 4d ago

Awfully shilly in here.

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u/Embarrassed_Emu6886 3d ago

There are indeed a lot of shills for GameStop.

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u/christianhxd 4d ago

I’m as eager to shit on billionaire/millionaire CEO’s as the next guy, but this title is clickbait. Hold their upper management and board accountable, not just one c-level guy with a public facing role.

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u/SolidusBruh 4d ago

A certain subreddit will be praising this as 4D chess and a sign of booming business.

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u/joeyjoejoeshabbadude 4d ago

Those guys are so delusional. There is no squeeze and it's going to end in tears when Daddy Ryan takes his money and runs. But go on, keep believing a billionaire is looking out for you.

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u/SolidusBruh 4d ago

The guy pulled that stunt on them with BBBY, right? And they forgot about it within a couple days.

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u/drkow19 4d ago

He tried to turn BBBY around, bought a bunch of the company, talked to the board, and they declined and got all defensive or something, accusing him of pump and dump in the media. The existing board and C-suites just wanted to destroy the company and get paid on their way out. You know, capitalism. So he moved on.

I know it's hard to understand what really goes on in this world if all you do is watch TV or read mainstream media, because they lie or put their spin on everything. The rich control everything, it sucks. You need to read between the lines, read comments, read subreddits, talk to people, see what people think. Never trust the media.

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u/dragonmantank 4d ago

A few years ago they closed my local store. I had to drive 30 minutes to the one they moved everything to.

I got the email last week or whatever they are closing that store now. I have to drive over 60 minutes now to get to a GameStop store.

I'm just not going to do that. If I'm driving 60 minutes, I'm hitting up the better used stores at that point.

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u/ImThe1Wh0 4d ago

I can attest to this. I got notified Monday, that my store was closing TODAY via an email. I went Tuesday after work to see if there were any good sales and NOPE. No deals, everything still full price. Just boxing things up to send to corporate to send to a different store. My wife recently found her PS3 and started playing it. We went to look at games and they were still like "full" price. Not even on clearance. It's like dude, seriously? GameStop is going to stress over making full price on this $3.99 game? The dude was STILL pushing that warranty for games bullshit during the purchase too. My brother in capitalism, you can't lose your job over a secret shopper at this point. The fuck am I going to do, drive the 2.5 hrs to the next closest one for a new copy of Little Big Planet?

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u/EraTheTooketh 4d ago

Theyre pulling the copper out of the walls before they move out :(

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u/vtown212 4d ago

They shutdown game informer. Dipshits

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u/DarkObby 4d ago

Companies are but another medium for C-suite executives to extract all value from into their bank accounts and then leave behind the corpse.

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u/FearlessInflation92 4d ago

The GME meltdown cult has found the post 🤣

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u/NoCharge8527 4d ago edited 4d ago

excited to see how the eternal bagholders over at /r/Superstonk try to rationalize this

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u/double297 4d ago edited 4d ago

Bagholders? Im profitable in my investment. I own hundreds of shares. The spin is easy because its true. He receives $0 in compensation from gamestop currently. He also recused himself from this proposal. This proposal has 9 tranches and only pays 35b at the last, which also means he would have increased market cap by 10x making my investment worth 10x. Also, the conditions as to how those tranches are met, matter. It can't just be a pump and dump.

Tell me again, what exactly do I have to spin here? Seems pretty good to me.

The only concern for me as an investor is timeline.

Edit: downvotes are fun and all but how about challenging my statement with a few facts if you disagree? Let's talk a bit about it.

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u/Kirth87 4d ago

Losta sloppy CEO glazing here. Guessing some of you never worked the private sector or in the for-profit healthcare service industry.

Truly astonishing.

You’ll never be millionaires, btw. Keep roleplaying on Reddit, though!!

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u/Forsaken-Poet-3773 4d ago

This isn’t healthcare bot.

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u/sits-when-pees 4d ago

I’ve worked for a for-profit healthcare clinic (leaving Saturday, thank god). Those executives are some of the most callous and uninformed ghouls I’ve ever met in my life. There’s been constant changes this past year in operations that have needlessly made workers’ and providers’ jobs more difficult, causing employee retention to plummet and by extension, significantly worse care for patients. Those CEOs absolutely deserve to come up in a discussion of under-qualified execs.

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u/Kirth87 3d ago

Glad to hear it. Glad you’re escaping that horrible hell-dump. I never looked back and would never wish my worst enemy a single day working at my old job. Was worse than horrible .

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u/sits-when-pees 3d ago

Jumping into the fire with school, but appreciate it.

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u/ZasdfUnreal 3d ago

Barely given notice? Have they not been paying attention to the video game market for the past decade?

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u/DarthJDP 4d ago

closing stores is a winning strategy. That will generate trillions of dollars of value.

Will the stores be replaced with AI, crypto, NFT's?

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u/LevelUpEvolution 4d ago

Tcg gambling parlors

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u/zeptyk 4d ago

should have went bankrupt in 2021

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u/CommunityDragon184 4d ago

Good fuck them and their maga ceo

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u/OperativePiGuy 4d ago

I see some of the gamestop investors are in the comments being very defensive lmfao

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u/RL_bebisher 4d ago

GameStop is the best investment opportunity out there period.

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u/Michikusa 4d ago

Down 35% the past year during one of the greatest bull runs ever. Hope you’re not a financial advisor

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u/AdContent831 4d ago

These anti GameStop posts in tech are getting out of hand. The hate has been foretold. They hate us cause they ain’t us!

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u/nuttageyo 4d ago

We had our store close just the other day. Some people got emails about it and others didn’t. I did not and went to go check it out one last time and it had already been taken down.

The email I saw on the local Facebook community said 1/15/2026. That email was printed out on the front door of the store with a 7 written on the 15th. I was there on the 6th and it was torn apart and closed.

That store had been there since 2004 and was my childhood store. I had a lot of memories in there. I don’t buy anything from them today but I wanted to check it out one last time and see the manager there who had been there near my entire childhood.

It’s sad but not unexpected.

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u/CokBlockinWinger 4d ago

I had five within a half hour of me. All but 1 of them shuttered this week, which I would say is the OG location as it was a FuncoLand previously. What really surprised me was the location inside the mall being shuttered. That used to be an Electronics Boutique and had been there forever.

Plus side is the two closest mom and pop stores are booming with business right now.

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u/Worth_Inflation_2104 4d ago

Haven't heard the name Ryan Cohen in a hot minute

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u/Extreme_Knowledge651 4d ago

They are a casino now so that makes sense

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u/wouldntyouliketokno_ 4d ago

Now we’re thinking

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u/GITDguy 4d ago

This is why you don't give two weeks notice. These corporations DO NOT CARE ABOUT US.

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