GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen shared his best and worst investments with Business Insider. Neither of them involves money.
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Ryan Cohen said he's still "collecting dividends" from his best investment, and his worst investment involved misplaced trust.
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GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen.GameStopRyan 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."My dad showed me how to trust my instincts," he wrote. "When I was a child, he treated me like an adult. He never patronized me. When I asked him for…
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