{
 "episode_id": "all-in-2026-06-23-gamestop-ceo-ryan-cohen-s-56b-plan-to-take-over-ebay",
 "title": "GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's $56B Plan to Take Over eBay",
 "podcast": "all-in",
 "published_at": "2026-06-23",
 "speakers": [
  "Ryan Cohen",
  "David Friedberg"
 ],
 "summary": "In a one-on-one All-In interview, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen walks David Friedberg through his path from founding the pet e-commerce retailer Chewy (built head-to-head against Amazon and sold in 2017 for $3.35 billion) to becoming an activist investor and ultimately CEO of GameStop. Cohen describes turning GameStop around through maniacal cost-cutting and a pivot into collectibles and trading cards, which he says now make up 42% of revenue. The bulk of the conversation covers his roughly $56 billion bid to acquire and run eBay: he argues eBay has stagnated since COVID under professional management, alienated its sellers, and should be far larger. He lays out a three-part plan — pulling $2 billion of costs out, scaling eBay Live commerce using GameStop's stores, and building a marketplace for in-game digital items — and explains the 50/50 cash-and-stock structure, the board's rejection, and his commitment ($500 million of his own money) to keep pushing even if it means going hostile.",
 "topics": [
  {
   "name": "GameStop's reputation and the media",
   "timestamp": "0:00",
   "summary": "Ryan opens with his core grievance: everyone hates GameStop and the media wants it to fail while rooting for an entrenched, overpaid board and management with no skin in the game."
  },
  {
   "name": "Building and running Chewy",
   "timestamp": "1:54",
   "summary": "How Ryan founded Chewy after abandoning a jewelry venture, out-executed rivals against Amazon on a low-margin recurring-purchase model, and built his team and supplier-negotiation playbook around will over skill."
  },
  {
   "name": "Selling Chewy and turning to activist investing",
   "timestamp": "11:07",
   "summary": "After the 2017 sale (and the stock taking off afterward), Ryan shifted to taking concentrated, activist positions in established, out-of-favor companies."
  },
  {
   "name": "The GameStop investment thesis and CEO seat",
   "timestamp": "13:15",
   "summary": "Why Ryan was drawn to the most-hated, shorted stock, his original console-cycle survival thesis, and how a sub-5% passive stake became a 13D activist position, board seats, and ultimately the CEO role."
  },
  {
   "name": "Turning GameStop around: the collectibles pivot",
   "timestamp": "19:36",
   "summary": "Ryan abandons the failed make-GameStop-like-Chewy strategy for cost-cutting and a pivot into collectibles and trading cards via an extendable trade-in model."
  },
  {
   "name": "Why eBay, and Ryan's circle of competence",
   "timestamp": "27:27",
   "summary": "Ryan explains he wants to do something big and that eBay is complementary to GameStop in secondary markets, collectibles, and authentication — and squarely within his e-commerce circle of competence."
  },
  {
   "name": "eBay's history, moat, and decline",
   "timestamp": "31:50",
   "summary": "Ryan credits eBay's first-mover marketplace moat but argues it fell behind Amazon, Shopify, and social/live commerce, mishandled PayPal/Skype/StubHub, and stagnated post-Donahoe with bloated costs and unhappy sellers."
  },
  {
   "name": "Ryan's three-part plan for eBay",
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "summary": "His plan: pull $2B of costs out to boost earnings, scale eBay Live commerce using GameStop's 1,600 stores as studios/fulfillment, and build a new marketplace providing liquidity for in-game digital items."
  },
  {
   "name": "The bid: rejection, structure, and going hostile",
   "timestamp": "49:33",
   "summary": "The eBay board's rejection, the 50/50 cash-and-stock structure, the failed vote to lower the special-meeting threshold, and Ryan's commitment of $500M of his own money and willingness to escalate to a hostile bid."
  }
 ],
 "entities": [
  {
   "name": "Ryan Cohen",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "The guest; GameStop CEO making a ~$56B bid to acquire and run eBay; founder of Chewy."
  },
  {
   "name": "David Friedberg",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "All-In host conducting the one-on-one interview."
  },
  {
   "name": "John Donahoe",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Former eBay CEO whose 2015 departure marks the start of eBay's decline in Ryan's telling."
  },
  {
   "name": "Charles Koch",
   "type": "person",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Koch Industries leader Friedberg recently interviewed; cited as a principles-based serial operator."
  },
  {
   "name": "GameStop",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Ryan Cohen's company; the acquirer financing the eBay bid; turned around via collectibles."
  },
  {
   "name": "eBay",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "The acquisition target; Ryan argues it has stagnated and is mismanaged."
  },
  {
   "name": "Chewy",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "central",
   "role_in_episode": "Ryan's first company; pet e-commerce he built against Amazon and sold in 2017."
  },
  {
   "name": "Amazon",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "The benchmark e-commerce and supply-chain competitor throughout the conversation."
  },
  {
   "name": "Shopify",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Cited as a competitor that took e-commerce share from eBay."
  },
  {
   "name": "PayPal",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Former eBay subsidiary later spun off."
  },
  {
   "name": "Skype",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Bought by eBay for $2.6B in 2005 and largely sold off by 2009."
  },
  {
   "name": "StubHub",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Bought and later sold by eBay to Viagogo's founder."
  },
  {
   "name": "Viagogo",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Bought StubHub back from eBay for ~$4B."
  },
  {
   "name": "Microsoft",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Overpaid for Skype in 2011; Xbox maker tied to GameStop's console cycle."
  },
  {
   "name": "PlayStation",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "New console cited in GameStop's original cyclical survival thesis."
  },
  {
   "name": "Xbox",
   "type": "product",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Microsoft console cited in the GameStop console-cycle thesis."
  },
  {
   "name": "Petco",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Incumbent pet retailer that hadn't disrupted neighborhood pet stores."
  },
  {
   "name": "PetSmart",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Incumbent pet retailer referenced alongside Petco."
  },
  {
   "name": "pets.com",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Failed pet e-commerce company in the backdrop when Chewy launched."
  },
  {
   "name": "Walmart",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Reference point: Amazon did online and at scale what Walmart did offline."
  },
  {
   "name": "Koch Industries",
   "type": "company",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Charles Koch's conglomerate cited as a principles-driven operating model."
  },
  {
   "name": "Wall Street Bets",
   "type": "organization",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Online community that drove GameStop's meme-stock attention."
  },
  {
   "name": "PSA",
   "type": "organization",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Card-grading service referenced in GameStop's trading-card trade-in model."
  },
  {
   "name": "collectibles",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "GameStop's leading category and the core of its synergy thesis with eBay."
  },
  {
   "name": "trading cards",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Collectibles subcategory (TCG, sports) central to GameStop's trade-in growth."
  },
  {
   "name": "live commerce",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Live-shopping growth vector Ryan would scale at eBay; ~$400B TAM."
  },
  {
   "name": "digital collectibles",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Ryan's idea to build an eBay marketplace providing liquidity for in-game digital items."
  },
  {
   "name": "marketplace model",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Ryan's preferred asset-light business model over taking first-party inventory."
  },
  {
   "name": "activist investing",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Ryan's approach: concentrated stakes in established, out-of-favor companies."
  },
  {
   "name": "management philosophy",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Ryan's operating beliefs: will over skill, transactional supplier relationships."
  },
  {
   "name": "founder-led companies",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "Theme that founder-operators outperform professional managers."
  },
  {
   "name": "meme stock",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "GameStop's public reputation that Ryan and Friedberg push back on."
  },
  {
   "name": "media",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "discussed",
   "role_in_episode": "The press's treatment of GameStop, which Ryan says roots for his failure."
  },
  {
   "name": "NFTs",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "Contrasted as utility-less versus in-game digital items."
  },
  {
   "name": "console cycle",
   "type": "concept",
   "salience": "mentioned",
   "role_in_episode": "The original cyclical thesis for GameStop's survival."
  }
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "Acquiring eBay is genuinely a good idea — unlike selling pet food online or even GameStop, this play actually makes sense.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "GameStop",
    "Chewy"
   ],
   "timestamp": "27:27",
   "quote": "So that was selling pet food online, not a great idea, and GameStop, I don't think was such a good idea either. This is actually a really good idea"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay has failed to grow with the rest of e-commerce and the business should be significantly larger than it is.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "32:22",
   "quote": "they haven't grown along with the rest of e-commerce ... that business should be significantly larger."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay could have become Amazon but squandered its early lead.",
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   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "Amazon"
   ],
   "timestamp": "34:54",
   "quote": "eBay could have been Amazon."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "Amazon charges sellers a lot and is over-earning on them — sellers move inventory but dislike the margins, leaving room for an alternative.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "Amazon"
   ],
   "timestamp": "37:03",
   "quote": "They charge a lot of money to their sellers. ... but they don't like the margins."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "He would keep eBay asset-light as a marketplace and would not take on first-party inventory.",
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   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
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   ],
   "timestamp": "37:21",
   "quote": "I would not be interested in taking in firsthand inventory. I like the marketplace model"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay should grow organically through focus on a single brand rather than acquisitions or sub-brands.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "39:58",
   "quote": "building it organically through eBay and through Focus is where I believe makes the most sense."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay's recent acquisitions don't make sense.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "38:36",
   "quote": "they've recently made acquisitions, which don't make sense."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay isn't growing while the rest of e-commerce is, and it's making less money while spending much more.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "40:29",
   "quote": "they're not growing, everybody else in e-commerce is growing, and they're making less money and they're spending a lot more"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "In a marketplace like eBay the sellers are the customer, and current management alienates and takes its sellers for granted.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "40:29",
   "quote": "the sellers, in a marketplace model like eBay, the sellers are the customer."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay's management is leaning on outside consultants rather than solving root-cause problems themselves.",
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   "conviction": 0.95,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "43:00",
   "quote": "I would bet everything that they're working with multiple outside consultants"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "When a company shifts from founder-operator to professional management, it loses the hands-on, root-cause problem solving.",
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   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
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   ],
   "timestamp": "43:00",
   "quote": "you go from a business that founder, operator run to business with a professional management team is, you know, you lose the one-on-one and just the rolling up your sleeves"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "Live commerce is a major growth vector where eBay should be the category leader, but its platform and lack of creators hold it back.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "live commerce"
   ],
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "quote": "eBay live should be significantly larger. They should be the category leader in the space."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "Unlike NFTs, in-game digital items have real utility, so a marketplace providing liquidity for them is valuable.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "NFTs",
    "digital collectibles"
   ],
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "quote": "it's what NFTs could have, people thought they were, but ultimately they had no real utility. In-game items actually have real utility."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "Physical collectibles like art and trading cards are fundamentally an ego play with little intrinsic utility.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "collectibles",
    "trading cards"
   ],
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "quote": "You own art? Like, what is that? At the end of the day, it's an ego play."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "The board's financing-uncertainty objection is invalid because the financing comes off eBay's own balance sheet.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "GameStop"
   ],
   "timestamp": "50:06",
   "quote": "if we can't get the financing, it means that eBay can't get the financing because we're getting the financing off of eBay's balance sheet."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "The shareholder vote ultimately comes down to who would be a better fiduciary and grow the business — and he believes that is him.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "Ryan Cohen"
   ],
   "timestamp": "54:46",
   "quote": "the vote is on who's going to be a better fiduciary of capital and who can grow this business."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay's CEO has no skin in the game — selling tens of millions in stock and never buying a share with his own money.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "54:46",
   "quote": "has not bought a single share of stock in the open market with his own money and has been selling tens of millions of dollars."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay's management team has no skin in the game and aren't builders — just overpaid employees of major companies.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "54:46",
   "quote": "you've got a management team with no skin in the game? They're not builders. They haven't built anything themselves before."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "In hiring, he prioritizes drive and motivation over resume credentials — will over skill.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "management philosophy"
   ],
   "timestamp": "9:45",
   "quote": "I look for will over skill."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "Supplier relationships should be transactional, not friendly — suppliers sending gifts signals you're overpaying.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "management philosophy"
   ],
   "timestamp": "7:56",
   "quote": "if our suppliers are sending us gifts in the mail, that's a really bad sign. It means we're overpaying."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "Trying to make GameStop more like Chewy was the wrong strategy.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.9,
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop",
    "Chewy"
   ],
   "timestamp": "19:36",
   "quote": "the strategy was to make GameStop more like Chewy. And that was the wrong strategy."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "Although both are retailers, Chewy and GameStop are totally different businesses, so the same playbook doesn't transfer.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "Chewy",
    "GameStop"
   ],
   "timestamp": "19:36",
   "quote": "they're both retailers. They take the same playbook, but that's not that was not the case. Totally different animal."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "eBay is within his circle of competence because he understands e-commerce far better than physical retail.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "Ryan Cohen"
   ],
   "timestamp": "27:27",
   "quote": "it's a business that I understand a lot better than physical retail because I know a thing or two about e-commerce"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "The best investment opportunities appear where there is the most pessimism and fear.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop",
    "activist investing"
   ],
   "timestamp": "16:02",
   "quote": "typically that's where you see opportunities is when there's a lot of pessimism and fear."
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "claim": "GameStop's original thesis was that an upcoming console cycle would let the cyclical business survive.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop",
    "console cycle"
   ],
   "timestamp": "17:51",
   "quote": "The original thesis was that there's an upcoming console cycle and that they're probably going to survive until the upcoming console cycle."
  },
  {
   "holder": "David Friedberg",
   "claim": "The media keeps GameStop framed as a meme stock because admitting it was a real business would mean admitting they were wrong.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.6,
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop",
    "media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "58:28",
   "quote": "To maintain their credibility, they have to continue to make you seem less credible."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "holder": "David Friedberg",
   "prediction": "If GameStop keeps delivering performance, those betting on its failure will ultimately lose, because long term the market is a weighing machine.",
   "timeframe": "long term",
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop"
   ],
   "timestamp": "58:28",
   "quote": "if the performance continues to be delivered at GameStop, people that might want to see the company fail are going to lose"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "prediction": "The addressable market for a marketplace in in-game digital items could be much larger than eBay's physical-items marketplace.",
   "timeframe": "unspecified",
   "subjects": [
    "digital collectibles",
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "quote": "I believe that addressable market is significantly larger than, could be much larger than eBay's marketplace on physical items"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ryan Cohen",
   "prediction": "He would immediately improve eBay's earnings by pulling $2 billion of costs out of the business.",
   "timeframe": "immediate (upon taking over eBay)",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "quote": "immediately improving earnings through cutting costs and pulling two billion dollars of costs out of the business."
  }
 ],
 "facts": [
  {
   "statement": "Ryan Cohen built and sold Chewy in 2017 for $3.35 billion.",
   "subjects": [
    "Chewy"
   ],
   "value": "$3.35 billion",
   "timestamp": "7:29",
   "quote": "you built and sold the business in 2017 for $3.35 billion.",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "After the sale, Chewy later went public at roughly a $20 billion market cap about two years later.",
   "subjects": [
    "Chewy"
   ],
   "value": "~$20B market cap",
   "timestamp": "10:59",
   "quote": "it went public at like, what, 20 billion market cap, like two years later.",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "In 2021 GameStop raised $1.7 billion and wiped out all its debt.",
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop"
   ],
   "value": "$1.7 billion",
   "timestamp": "19:19",
   "quote": "in 2021, the company raises $1.7 billion, wipes out all the debt.",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Collectibles now make up 42% of GameStop revenue (~$350 million).",
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop",
    "collectibles"
   ],
   "value": "42% of revenue (~$350M)",
   "timestamp": "26:08",
   "quote": "collectibles is now 42% of revenue. $350 million",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "GameStop Q1 revenue was $835 million, up 14% year over year.",
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop"
   ],
   "value": "$835M, +14% YoY",
   "timestamp": "26:08",
   "quote": "Q1 revenue was $835 million. It grew at 14% year over year.",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "GameStop cut SG&A from $228 million to $202 million.",
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop"
   ],
   "value": "$228M -> $202M",
   "timestamp": "26:08",
   "quote": "You cut SG&A from $228 to $202.",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "GameStop holds $9.7 billion in cash and generated $333 million in free cash flow.",
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop"
   ],
   "value": "$9.7B cash, $333M FCF",
   "timestamp": "26:08",
   "quote": "You have $9.7 billion in cash, $333 million in free cash flow.",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005 and sold 70% of it for $2 billion in 2009.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "Skype"
   ],
   "value": "$2.6B (2005), 70% for $2B (2009)",
   "timestamp": "37:52",
   "quote": "they bought Skype for 2.6 billion in 2005 and then sold 70% of it for 2 billion in 2009",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "eBay bought StubHub and later sold it to Viagogo's founder, Eric, for $4 billion.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "StubHub"
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   "value": "$4 billion",
   "timestamp": "39:37",
   "quote": "StubHub, which they bought and then sold to the founder, Eric, at Viagogo for 4 billion",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "John Donahoe left eBay around 2015 (roughly 11 years ago).",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "John Donahoe"
   ],
   "value": "left ~2015",
   "timestamp": "40:12",
   "quote": "He left, I think, what did he leave a couple years ago? 2015",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Since COVID, eBay's GMV, operating earnings, and active users are all down, with active users off by 30 million.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "value": "active users -30 million",
   "timestamp": "40:29",
   "quote": "GMV is down, active users is down by 30 million, operating earnings is down.",
   "source": "Ryan Cohen"
  },
  {
   "statement": "eBay's operating expenses are now over half of its revenues, despite carrying no inventory.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "value": ">50% of revenue",
   "timestamp": "40:29",
   "quote": "their operating expenses are over half of their revenues.",
   "source": "Ryan Cohen"
  },
  {
   "statement": "eBay's operating base is close to $5.5 billion of expenses, including $2.4 billion on sales and marketing for essentially no user growth.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "value": "~$5.5B expenses, $2.4B S&M",
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "quote": "close to five and a half billion of expenses and two point four billion spent on sales and marketing for essentially no user growth.",
   "source": "Ryan Cohen"
  },
  {
   "statement": "The live commerce TAM is roughly $400 billion, growing quickly in the US and already very popular in Asia.",
   "subjects": [
    "live commerce"
   ],
   "value": "~$400B TAM",
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "quote": "the TAM is like 400 billion. It's growing very quickly in the US. It's very popular in Asia.",
   "source": "Ryan Cohen"
  },
  {
   "statement": "GameStop has about 1,600 stores that could serve as creator studios, fulfillment, and logistics nodes.",
   "subjects": [
    "GameStop"
   ],
   "value": "1,600 stores",
   "timestamp": "44:39",
   "quote": "there are 1600 essentially nodes that can be used as studios for creators.",
   "source": "Ryan Cohen"
  },
  {
   "statement": "The bid would require assembling a syndicate of about $56 billion of cash for an all-cash offer.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
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   "value": "$56 billion",
   "timestamp": "51:14",
   "quote": "a syndicate of 56 billion dollars of cash",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "The offer to eBay shareholders is 50% cash and 50% stock at a premium to where GameStop bought in.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "value": "50% cash / 50% stock",
   "timestamp": "52:13",
   "quote": "We're offering them 50% cash, 50% stock at a premium to where we bought it.",
   "source": "Ryan Cohen"
  },
  {
   "statement": "A vote to lower the threshold to call a special eBay shareholder meeting from 20% to 10% of shares failed.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay"
   ],
   "value": "threshold stays at 20%",
   "timestamp": "53:50",
   "quote": "There was a vote that failed to reduce the threshold to 10% of shares outstanding. It's currently at 20%.",
   "source": "David Friedberg"
  },
  {
   "statement": "Ryan Cohen is putting $500 million of his own money into the eBay transaction.",
   "subjects": [
    "eBay",
    "Ryan Cohen"
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   "value": "$500 million",
   "timestamp": "54:46",
   "quote": "I'm putting 500 million of my own money into this transaction.",
   "source": "Ryan Cohen"
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  {
   "statement": "eBay's CEO would receive a golden parachute of over $100 million.",
   "subjects": [
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   "value": ">$100 million",
   "timestamp": "58:17",
   "quote": "It's over 100 million bucks.",
   "source": "Ryan Cohen"
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   "speaker": "Ryan Cohen",
   "timestamp": "0:00",
   "quote": "Everyone hates GameStop, and it seems like everyone in the media basically wants us to fail and wants them to succeed.",
   "why": "The grievance that frames the whole interview — Ryan as the underdog fighting an entrenched establishment."
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   "speaker": "Ryan Cohen",
   "timestamp": "30:46",
   "quote": "I was on the toilet.",
   "why": "His deadpan answer for where the idea to make a play for eBay first struck him."
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  {
   "speaker": "Ryan Cohen",
   "timestamp": "9:45",
   "quote": "be as psychotic as me. And that was the team that we put together. It was just a bunch of fellow psychopaths.",
   "why": "Memorable encapsulation of his will-over-skill, all-in hiring philosophy."
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   "speaker": "Ryan Cohen",
   "timestamp": "27:27",
   "quote": "But life is too short to do it small.",
   "why": "His stated motivation for swinging at a ~$56B eBay takeover instead of building GameStop organically."
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   "speaker": "Ryan Cohen",
   "timestamp": "7:56",
   "quote": "if our suppliers are sending us gifts in the mail, that's a really bad sign. It means we're overpaying.",
   "why": "Counterintuitive operating wisdom on keeping supplier relationships transactional."
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   "speaker": "David Friedberg",
   "timestamp": "58:28",
   "quote": "It's a voting machine, but on the long term, it's a weighing machine.",
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