1,600 GameStop stores as commerce nodes
Ryan Cohen envisions using GameStop's 1,600 stores as studios, fulfillment centers, and logistics nodes to power eBay's live commerce expansion.
Snapshot · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's $56B Plan to Take Over eBay
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Jun 23, 2026
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Ryan's three-part vision for eBay
At 47:17 · chapter starts 43:58
Cohen outlines his strategic vision: cut $2B from eBay's cost base, dominate the $400B live commerce market using GameStop's 1,600 stores, and build the world's first liquid marketplace for in-game digital collectibles. [1] — Ryan Cohen "Cohen's plan for eBay is surgical: slash $2B from a bloated $5.5B cost base, rescue eBay Live from obscurity and capture the $400B live com…" 43:59 [2] — Ryan Cohen "NFTs promised a market for digital ownership but had no utility. In-game items like skins and weapons are different — they have real in-gam…" 48:00
Ryan Cohen's $56B Vision for eBay: Three Pillars
Cohen's plan for eBay is surgical: slash $2B from a bloated $5.5B cost base, rescue eBay Live from obscurity and capture the $400B live commerce TAM, then build the world's first liquid marketplace for in-game digital items — a market he says is bigger than all of eBay's existing physical business.
$2B cost cut target from $5.5B expense base
Ryan Cohen's first priority if he acquires eBay is to pull $2 billion of costs out of the approximately $5.5 billion operating expense base.
$2.4B eBay sales & marketing for zero user growth
eBay spent $2.4 billion on sales and marketing while achieving essentially no active user growth, a major inefficiency Cohen plans to eliminate.
Live commerce TAM ~$400B
Ryan Cohen cited a $400 billion total addressable market for live commerce, calling eBay's current live commerce presence embarrassingly small relative to that opportunity.
The Digital Collectibles Opportunity No One Has Built
NFTs promised a market for digital ownership but had no utility. In-game items like skins and weapons are different — they have real in-game use, billions of players own them, and yet no liquid marketplace exists. Cohen wants eBay to be that marketplace.
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