GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen shared his best and worst investments with Business Insider. Neither of them involves money.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen shares that his most valuable life investment was time spent with his father, while his biggest professional mistake was trusting the wrong people. He emphasizes that personal relationships and character are more important than financial gains.
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Offers insight into the leadership philosophy of a high-profile executive, contrasting corporate success with personal values.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen. GameStop Ryan Cohen outlined his best and worst investments to Business Insider in an email in late September. GameStop's billionaire CEO said nothing could match his return from spending time with his father. The Chewy cofounder said his biggest investing mistake was trusting the wrong people. Ryan Cohen says the best and worst investments of his life have to do with people, not money. GameStop's CEO and Chewy's billionaire cofounder told Business Insider by email last week that nothing has yielded a greater return for him than spending "time with my dad." "I'm still collecting dividends," Cohen said about his father, Ted, who died in 2019. Cohen launched a "Teddy" series of children's books in 2022 to share his father's lessons with a wider audience. He detailed some of them in an email to Business Insider in 2020.
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