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Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters Jul 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:08 David Friedberg So I think Ryan Cohen has proved his mettle, obviously, with some of the things that he's done with Chewy and GameStop, and that's obviously debatable.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s $56B Plan to Take Over eBay Jun 23, 2026 · 38 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Ryan Cohen Everyone hates GameStop and it seems like everyone in the media basically wants us to fail and wants them to succeed. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:25 unnamed speaker I'm just trying to understand your, your skill as a manager of people, because clearly you did something right, continue to execute at GameStop, which we'll get to in a minute.
  • ▶ 13:16 Ryan Cohen Well, when it came to GameStop, originally it was a passive investment and I owned under five percent and the CEO actually reached out to me because they were fighting, um, an activist and they wanted me to join the board. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:42 Ryan Cohen Learned a lot at GameStop. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:40 unnamed speaker The numbers speak for themselves in terms of what you've delivered at GameStop.
  • ▶ 31:24 Ryan Cohen GameStop, it's a big portion of our business, and it's a big portion of, of eBay's business too, and the secondhand business as well. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:31 Ryan Cohen And, and the categories where eBay is doing well are categories where GameStop is doing especially well also.
  • ▶ 49:37 unnamed speaker Is it that they're looking at Ryan Cohen saying, hey, you're a guy that ran Chewy for a few years and sold it, and you've been running GameStop. 11 times in the scene

Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING Jun 3, 2026 · 1 mention

1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned Oct 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:08 Andrew Ross Sorkin I remember I'd either talk about, like, GameStop or some of these other companies and tell people, you know,

DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias Apr 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:51:55 Ben Shapiro It spoke to like 240, so it's more like GameStop than anything else. 2 times in the scene

DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market Jun 7, 2024 · 12 mentions

E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more Mar 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more Feb 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:35 Chamath Palihapitiya GameStop was another where you misjudge or you sub analytically look at the actual share count and what's actually free floating.

E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more Nov 12, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:07 Chamath Palihapitiya And if you look actually inside a game stop, the reason why you got all this gamification in the game stock equity and a bunch of these other names was in part because of this dynamic. 2 times in the scene

E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more May 13, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:36:38 Chamath Palihapitiya It's when the most heavily shorted stocks start to rip up, you know, sort of the GameStop, GameStop like rallies, and you're seeing that actually today.

E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars Dec 23, 2021 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 22:31 David Friedberg My biggest winner in business, um, goes back to the GameStop days, and I think it was the retail investor class. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:17 David Friedberg Uh, Gabe Plotkin and, um, you know, he lost so much money shorting GameStop against these guys, uh, buying GameStop to the moon. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:30 Jason Calacanis Dow's, um, were able to raise forty million dollars in a couple of days for this constitution, uh, and get and basically captures every capture the entire world's imagination for, you know, a 72 hour news cycle, uh, much in the way the day…

E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government Nov 20, 2021 · 4 mentions

E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand Oct 23, 2021 · 1 mention

E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner Apr 17, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:25 David Friedberg And a mob rule, as we've seen, where you get cancel culture and you get, um, you know, GameStop going through the roof and, and you get, um, trial before, um, uh, before without a jury, uh, and trial without a judge.

E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing Mar 20, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:09:51 Jason Calacanis But now, just like we saw a GameStop, just like we see with Bitcoin, just like we see with NFTs, and Robin Hood day traders.

E24: Markets trend down, political pandemic manipulation, stimulus breakdown, biological Patriot Act Mar 6, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:11 Jason Calacanis Because I think that's all the money going into NFTs and making bets on GameStop and doing all this, you know, shenanigans with Bitcoin.

E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation Feb 13, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 2:57 David Sacks I think it's our highest rated pod ever was discussing the GameStop issue.
  • ▶ 15:43 Vlad Tenev So the example I gave was, for example, GME and some of these other meme stocks, we raised the requirement on those to a hundred percent.
  • ▶ 19:19 Jason Calacanis Did Citadel call you and say stop this madness because they had exposure through one of their hedge funds with GameStop, and did Sequoia call you and say, hey, stop this madness?
  • ▶ 31:07 David Sacks This is not about what happened, uh, that, that with GameStop.

E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it Feb 3, 2021 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 5:06 Jason Calacanis And, uh, the GME short interest dropped in half today.
  • ▶ 10:23 Chamath Palihapitiya It may or may not change, but before the problem with the whole situation of GameStop actually doesn't really surround that because it's more of a symptom.
  • ▶ 20:41 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, but as of this Friday, the short interest was still, I think about 50%, um, in GameStop. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:14:42 Jason Calacanis So just by Bitcoin, I mean, this is why they're attracted to buying Bitcoin, or doing what they did with GameStop, and why Wall Street, insiders versus outsiders, they feel like they have this opportunity to show the man and they don't…

E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future? Jan 30, 2021 · 27 mentions

  • ▶ 2:00 Jason Calacanis The stock they picked, ah, for the past couple of months has been GameStop, and, ah, 15 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:10 Jason Calacanis That nobody's ever seen, and now we're back in the game, and don't you think all this attention then drives more people to buy GameStop, which is what's happening today, and that they're still going to get crushed, because they're still… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:29 Jason Calacanis What happens to the if the short positions get covered, which they're going to be at some point in GameStop, I would think, or some large amount of when the short squeeze is off, what happens to the people who are buying in, you know, to… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:05:05 David Friedberg And that's what's occurred with GameStop and it's what occurred with, with, with Bitcoin.
  • ▶ 1:09:29 Jason Calacanis I don't know if this is exactly correct, but I just asked on Twitter how many shares of GameStop are still short. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:11:30 Jason Calacanis Do we all agree, though, that GameStop is not Tesla? 5 times in the scene
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