Ryan Cohen
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But the goal here isn't to be an activist.
The goal is
I want to own eBay.
I want to run eBay.
I want that to be my baby.
I want to build something much larger.
Cost cutting, frankly, is the way to make the business more efficient, to pay down the debt and innovate.
When I think about what I can do with eBay in the future, look at Chewy.
eBay is like Chewy on steroids.
There's so much more runway and it's global.
Based on performance 100%.
It would be, my current compensation plan is tied to really lofty metrics and it's based on the first tranche I've got to double market cap, as an example, just to hit the first tranche and the 10X in order for it to fully vest.
So I'm not interested in, I haven't taken a dollar of salary or any bonuses.
You know, it's funny, actually, I just got a call from my team today that said, this is how I know they hate me.
They're not happy about this, by the way.
The GameStop, this is the GameStop team?
eBay, no, eBay is not happy.
Oh, the eBay team, okay.
Yeah, after this interview, they're really not going to like me.
by it because they're going to find out I'm cutting marketing spend.