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Ryan Cohen

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

We would improve the platform so it looks better and more consistent with the kind of UI that you have at competitors.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

But there's the user base.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

And so it's not something you have to market.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

It's building out better tech.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

and partnering with creators.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

So in terms of the competitive landscape on an acquisition, I think there was some people circling around a few years ago.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

Nothing happened.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

The strategics can't really do it because I don't think that they would be able to clear antitrust.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

So any of the large competitors wouldn't be able to acquire it.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

I don't think that we would have any regulatory issues getting clearance on a merger.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

In terms of the efficiencies, GameStop is a good example.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

GameStop is a dog, and it could have been dead.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

We've breathed a lot of life into this thing.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

right and you look at sgna we've pulled out we've dropped sgna by 47 800 million dollars by making marketing more efficient almost turning off marketing i mean everyone knows gamestop everybody knows ebay so you talk to the marketing people that tell you like it's gonna tank revenues and all of this and the reality is

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

Most of that marketing spends isn't making money, but everyone's trying to protect their jobs and there's kickbacks, there's all kinds of perverse incentives.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

And so I'm running the business like a family business.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

It's really not that complicated.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

And you look at eBay spending two and a half billion bucks to grow one million users, two billion in cost cuts between sales and marketing and corporate overhead.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

It's not a lot.

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FULL INTERVIEW: GameStop’s Ryan Cohen on Why He’s Buying eBay

And it's not something that's going to take a few years.