Billionaire Ryan Cohen takes over as CEO at GameStop

Billionaire Ryan Cohen takes over as CEO at GameStop

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Billionaire Ryan Cohen, the largest individual investor in GameStop, is taking over as CEO at the video game retailer. Cohen is already the board chairman and the company’s largest individual investor. The CEO job at GameStop, which became one of the most well-known meme stocks to create a frenzy among retail traders on Wall Street, has become a rotating door with the company trying to survive as technology upends the gaming industry. In June, the company fired CEO Matthew Furlong, the former Amazon executive who was brought in two years ago to turn the struggling video game retailer around.Shares of Gamestop Corp. spiked 10% Thursday before the opening bell.

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