Ryan Cohen 攝於2019年
出生 1985/1986年(38—39岁)[ 1] 加拿大魁北克省蒙特婁 职业 知名于 Chewy 创始人兼首席执行官(2011-2018)GameStop 董事长(2021至今)
瑞安·柯恩 (Ryan Cohen) (生于1985年或1986年)是加拿大企业家和维权投资者 。[ 2] [ 3] 他于2011年创立了电子商务公司Chewy ,并担任该公司的首席执行官直至2018年。柯恩目前是GameStop 的董事长。[ 4]
柯恩出生于蒙特利尔 的一个犹太家庭。[ 5] [ 6] 他从未上过大学,他将经营一家玻璃器皿公司的父亲作为他追求创业之路的主要灵感来源。[ 7] 他的父亲于2019年12月去世。 [ 6]
15岁时,柯恩开始了其第一笔生意,透过向各种电子商务网站收取推荐费用。2011年,25岁時,柯恩以MrChewy的原名创立了Chewy。 [ 8] 柯恩稱他选择宠物类别的灵感来自于他为他的贵宾犬 Tylee购物的经历。 [ 9] 他引用经营玻璃器皿进口业务的父亲Ted作为导师。 [ 10] [ 11] 柯恩说,由于需要资金,他最初接触了100多家风险投资公司,但都被拒绝了。 [ 12] [ 13] 2013年,柯恩以1500万美元从Volition Capital获得了公司的第一笔外部投资。 [ 14] 到2016年,他已经从贝莱德 和普徠仕 New Horizons Fund等投资者筹集了资金。 [ 15] 那一年,该公司的销售额为9亿美元,并成为排名第一的在线宠物零售商。 [ 16] 到2017年,他筹集了3.5亿美元,并正在为首次公開募股(IPO)做准备。 [ 17]
2017年4月,PetSmart以33.5亿美元的价格收购了Chewy,这是有史以来最大的电子商务收购案。 [ 17] 那一年,《財富 》雜誌将柯恩评为“40位40歲以下精英 ” [ 18] 之一,Vox 也将他列入Recode 100名单。 [ 19] 柯恩在收购后仍担任首席执行官,主要作为PetSmart的独立部门运营该业务。 [ 16] 2018年,他的业务增长到 35 亿美元的收入[ 17] ,之後辞去首席执行官一职,以追求个人目标并与家人共度时光。 [ 20] 2019年6月,Chewy以87亿美元的估值上市。 [ 21]
2021年1月,柯恩与两名Chewy高管一起加入了GameStop董事会。柯恩还被任命为董事长,领导一个负责全公司转型的新委员会。 [ 22] 柯恩的任命引发了股市反弹;两周内,该股上涨了1,500%。 [ 23] 从那时起,柯恩在GameStop的多项变革中发挥了重要作用, [ 24] 包括致多名高管和十名董事会成员的离职, [ 22] 以及聘请亚马逊和Chewy的多名高管担任领导职务。 [ 25] 年度股东大会后,他成为董事长。 [ 4] [ 26]
於出售Chewy之后,柯恩对Apple 进行了大量投资,使他成为这家科技公司最大的个人股东,拥有155万股(截至2020年8月31日,拆分调整后的股票为620万股)。 [ 2] [ 27]
2020年9月,柯恩披露了GameStop近10%的股份, [ 28] 使他成为该公司最大的个人投资者。后来通过向美国证券交易委员会提交的修订后的13D文件,这一比例在2020年12月17日增加到 12.9%。 [ 29] 根据这些文件,柯恩的公司RC Ventures表示愿意更多地参与公司,以“为所有股东创造最好的结果。” [ 30]
2022年3月,据披露,柯恩透过其投资公司RC Ventures LLC持有Bed Bath & Beyond 近 10%的股份。[ 31] 8月15日至18日期间,他的公司出售了所有股票,共计945万股。 [ 32] 利润估计为6800万美元。 [ 32]
柯恩于2022年8月24日在联邦诉讼中被点名,罪名是涉嫌欺诈计划,人为抬高 Bed Bath & Beyond公开交易股票的价格。该诉讼指控柯恩与公司首席财务官Gustavo Arnal 密谋发布“欺诈性和误导性的美国证券交易委员会文件”。它在集体诉讼中要求赔偿12亿美元。 [ 33] [ 34]
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^ Friedman, Zack. Chewy Founder Ryan Cohen, Who Sold His Company For $3 Billion, Shares His Best Advice . Forbes. [2022-03-23 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-01-17) (英语) .
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^ Verdon, Joan. Don't Bet Against Pets: Retail Lessons From The Chewy IPO . Forbes . June 14, 2019 [July 10, 2019] . (原始内容存档 于2023-03-28).
^ Verdon, Joan. Ryan Cohen Started A Company That Took On Amazon, And Sold It For $3 Billion. Now He's Thinking About What's Next . Forbes . January 26, 2020 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-03-27).
^ Cohen, Ryan. The Secret Weapon Behind Chewy Founder Ryan Cohen's Success . Entrepreneur . May 4, 2020 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2022-07-29).
^ Adams, Susan. The Man Who Found Gold In Dog Food . Forbes . January 10, 2017 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-03-27).
^ Dahlberg, Nancy. What it's like to grow and sell a multibillion-dollar company, at age 32 . Miami Herald . March 26, 2018 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2022-09-05).
^ Cohen, Ryan. The Founder of Chewy.com on Finding the Financing to Achieve Scale . Harvard Business Review . Harvard Business Publishing . January–February 2020 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-06-09).
^ Zaleski, Olivia. Your Dog Deserves an Oil Portrait With Her Gluten-Free Kibble . Bloomberg L.P. November 22, 2016 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2022-12-05).
^ 16.0 16.1 Armental, Maria. PetSmart's Latest Bite at E-Commerce: Chewy.com . The Wall Street Journal . April 18, 2017 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-01-17).
^ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Gottfried, Miriam. How PetSmart Swallowed Chewy—and Proved the Doubters Wrong . The Wall Street Journal . October 1, 2019 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-05-30).
^ 40 Under 40 . Fortune . 2017 [July 23, 2019] . (原始内容存档 于2022-08-21).
^ Del Rey, Jason. Ryan Cohen kept Chewy under the radar until it sold for more than $3 billion . Vox . December 6, 2017 [July 23, 2019] . (原始内容存档 于2023-06-05).
^ Dahlberg, Nancy. Co-founder Ryan Cohen stepping down as CEO of Chewy, a homegrown success story . Miami Herald . March 15, 2018 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-01-17).
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^ 22.0 22.1 Gilbert, Ben. Wall Street darling Ryan Cohen is clearing house at GameStop, bringing in e-commerce experts to transform it into the Amazon of gaming . Business Insider . March 25, 2021 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2022-01-14).
^ Li, Yun. GameStop mania explained: How the Reddit retail trading crowd ran over Wall Street pros . CNBC . January 27, 2021 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2021-01-27).
^ Herbst-Bayliss, Svea. From pet food to video games: inside Ryan Cohen's GameStop obsession . Reuters . March 23, 2021 [July 2, 2021] . ISSN 2293-6343 . (原始内容存档 于2023-01-17).
^ Reuters Staff. GameStop shakeup rolls on, hires Amazon executive as chief growth officer . Reuters . March 30, 2021 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-01-17).
^ Thomas, Lauren. GameStop says it will name Ryan Cohen chairman . CNBC . April 8, 2021 [December 11, 2021] . (原始内容存档 于2023-01-17).
^ Pendleton, Devon. A Tech Founder Cashed Out and Bet It All on Apple and Wells Fargo . Bloomberg L.P. June 5, 2020 [2023-01-17 ] . (原始内容存档 于2022-03-02).
^ Kharif, Olga. GameStop Rises on Investor's Plan to Make It an Amazon Rival . Bloomberg L.P. September 21, 2020 [October 13, 2020] . (原始内容存档 于2022-05-06).
^ INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(a) AND AMENDMENTS THERETO FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-2(a) . U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . December 17, 2020 [December 30, 2020] . (原始内容存档 于2022-04-27).
^ INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS FILED PURSUANT TO 13d-1(a) AND AMENDMENTS THERETO FILED PURSUANT TO 13d-2(a) . GameStop . September 21, 2020 [October 13, 2020] . (原始内容存档 于2023-01-17).
^ GameStop's Cohen takes stake in Bed Bath & Beyond, pushes for changes . Reuters . March 7, 2022 [March 7, 2022] . (原始内容存档 于2023-07-05).
^ 32.0 32.1 Melin, Anders. Ryan Cohen pockets $68 million profit on Bed Bath & Beyond trade . Fortune. [2022-08-19 ] . (原始内容存档 于2023-02-09) (英语) .
^ Mollman, Steve. Bed Bath & Beyond CFO accused of "pump and dump" scheme before falling to his death from NYC skyscraper . Fortune . September 4, 2022 [September 5, 2022] . (原始内容存档 于2022-09-04).
^ Case# 1:22-cv-02541 (PDF) . The United States District Court for the District of Columbia. August 24, 2022 [September 5, 2022] . (原始内容存档 (PDF) 于2023-03-17).