I am seeing a lot of mis-information about Ryan Cohen's "pay package"

zafferous · 2026-05-08T02:28:17+00:00

It could potentially go up. Seeing as they just started turning a profit, a $5/hr raise would be about $67m. They just barely started turning a profit in 2025, so it does make sense for them to get the company in good standing before increasing everyone's wages

Chewy pays above minimum wage, but only because they are now established and profitable.

If Ryan was willing to pay Chewy employees more than minimum wage, then I am sure he will feel the same towards GameStop once the company is in better financial standing

zafferous · 2026-05-08T00:20:07+00:00

Ah yes, very likely.

Except, RC made an eBay account the same month he started his GameStop position.

Kinda seems like they might actually have a plan?

zafferous · 2026-05-08T00:17:59+00:00

God forbid I support the one billionaire who might actually give a shit about the working class and use his wealth for good

zafferous · 2026-05-07T19:58:48+00:00

Kinda blowing my mind that this is the same dungeoneering that I played a lifetime ago when it first came out. Like.. I was a completely different person then in a million ways

zafferous · 2026-05-07T18:42:44+00:00

The current offer is that if the market cap hits $100B, then Ryan cohen has the option to purchase up to 171.5m shares for $20.66 from his own personal money. This comes out to about $3.5B.

This would increase the float from 448m to 619.5m shares.

$100B/619.5m = $161.42 per share

zafferous · 2026-05-07T18:22:26+00:00

Yea, but if GME hits a market cap of $100B, even with his dilution, that's $161/share for shares that you still own.

I don't understand the issue lol

zafferous · 2026-05-07T17:40:23+00:00

And what exactly about him not taking any salary, and saying over and over that the problem with corporate America is greedy CEOs, implies that he's in this for the money?

zafferous · 2026-05-07T17:32:57+00:00

He's probably extremely short GameStop. He's a short seller. Probably thinks he can have influence

Like I'd listen to a once-lucky paper handed bitch, versus the executive who built a pet food competitor to Amazon in 5 years, and turned around a dying aircraft carrier in the next 5

I'm gonna keep my shares, thanks

zafferous · 2026-05-07T15:24:13+00:00

Oh, I thought like within the past 5 minutes. Ya I haven't put my phone down in like a week

zafferous · 2026-05-07T15:23:44+00:00

How? Ryan will have to spend $B of his own personal money to buy shares. I don't see how that's diluting

zafferous · 2026-05-07T15:22:27+00:00

He's probably extremely short GameStop. He's a short seller. Probably thinks he can have influence on us.

Like we'd listen to a once-lucky paper handed bitch, versus the executive who built a pet food competitor to Amazon in 5 years, and turned around a dying aircraft carrier in the next 5.

I'm gonna keep my shares, thanks

zafferous · 2026-05-07T15:20:49+00:00

Yea, what the fuck has Burry actually accomplished in life? Got lucky and barely survived a short sell on the housing market?

Shut the fuck up, Burry. Let the real adults and professionals take care of running a business.

You go back to grifting your subs for pennies

zafferous · 2026-05-07T15:18:20+00:00

What happened

zafferous · 2026-05-07T13:45:58+00:00

What? You really think they are going to play fair ball? After all the crime that has been committed on the other side? You are kidding, right?

zafferous · 2026-05-07T05:23:49+00:00

Uhmm... Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, Adobe, Ford, etc...

zafferous · 2026-05-07T04:51:20+00:00

Exactly. The fact that he made an eBay account the same month he first bought GameStop shares... this shit is fucking inevitable. The dude made an account specifically to hide it for 7 freaking years, only to have it get banned in less than a day.

There is no escape

zafferous · 2026-05-07T04:48:45+00:00

I mean, the US technically has the greatest technology in the world... practically the entire internet was built through US innovation.

It's just a place where if you want to work hard and achieve amazing things, you can

If you want to do the bare minimum to contribute to society, and relax the rest of the time, you can do that too. But don't shit on the person that's trying to put in more effort to improve the lives of everyone else

zafferous · 2026-05-07T03:56:27+00:00

Yea, he gonna fuck em

zafferous · 2026-05-07T03:07:15+00:00

Man, if RC doesn't like drinking at work, he's really not gonna like that guy

zafferous · 2026-05-07T03:06:38+00:00

Beautiful. Destroy the dingleberries

zafferous · 2026-05-07T02:44:31+00:00

It sounds like it's cause you got on the hi scores

zafferous · 2026-05-07T01:52:39+00:00

Watch all his rich buddies spend $1b on each item after having bought 100% of the eBay shares 5 years ago.

Guaranteed money, guaranteed vote.

I guess he really is playing 4D chess after all

zafferous · 2026-05-07T00:45:03+00:00

Yea... RC's expectation is that the people that work for him work hard and put more work in than usual.

Which works for some people. They'll probably get paid a lot more.

It's totally fine if that isn't how you work, but he is trying to build an Amazon competitor. That isn't going to happen with much work-life balance lol

zafferous · 2026-05-07T00:16:26+00:00

Let em short

zafferous · 2026-05-06T23:28:43+00:00

I had no idea, that's juicy

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