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Ryan Cohen: Corporate Leaders Without Personal Financial Stakes Disregard Shareholders
“Ultimately, what you see is that when people don't have their own money on the line, they don't give a shit, and they're focused on all kinds of other stuff that ultimately doesn't matter to shareholders”
Cohen: expanding corporate teams creates unsustainable cost structures once growth halts
“People build teams, they hire people, ultimately what that means is they delegate their work to someone else, you end up taking on this crazy cost structure, and it works when the business is growing, but it doesn't work well once you the business stops growin…”
Cohen: PE and VC are incentivized to deploy capital for fees
“That's a different calculus than the world of private equity, or venture capital, or any money managers, where They're incentivized to deploy capital because they get management fees.”
Ryan Cohen: Four-year US political cycles lack long-term incentives for AI stewardship
“It's governments and it's ones who are, who have a long tenure. You look at America, You know, the presidential cycle is four years. So, I don't know if that's necessarily long-term incentives.”
Cohen: Vertical category focus beats broad tech giants without first-mover advantage
“You don't necessarily have to be first to the game in order to be successful. Amazon was first to the game, but we focused on the category, and we were successful, and so it's kind of what's interesting in technology in general, is like, you have these technol…”