Lauren Thomas

And there were moments when Ryan would just draw a pause and not really respond to the questions that were being asked of him.

And so it was unique.

It was not necessarily, it's not the interview that you would expect a CEO to be given the morning after they make a $56 billion takeover proposal.

Could he bring in outside investors?

Could hypothetically you see some private equity firms get interested in this deal and say, hey, I want to put a couple billion dollars in.

One other idea that has come up is the idea of sovereign wealth funds getting involved in the deal.

And I would imagine that those are the kinds of conversations now that this is public that are taking place behind the scenes.

But at the same time, I think the GameStop shareholder base is so unique.

It's been unique really ever since Ryan Cohen got involved.

A lot of people that hold shares in GameStop are loyal to him.

And so I do think it's a situation in which you could see him almost getting away with it to a certain extent, given people are generally so supportive of him within this community that he might have some more leeway to do it here.

One more question for you.

If eBay is like, no, we're not interested in this, have you thought through, like, possibilities of how could this play out?

Yeah, all right.

Yeah, I think this is Ryan Cohen's next chapter.

This is him coming out and saying, look, I'm still here.

In fact, I'm back.

I'm ready to do my next thing.

Like, hope you haven't forgotten about me because here I am.

And it just shows, you know, what he's been cooking up behind the scenes, you know, when people might have written him off as just the GameStop guy.