To some, GameStop is a relic of the glory days of gaming earlier than the arrival of the filthy casuals the place true avid gamers would line up passionately at midnight within the chilly and rain to get their fingers on the subsequent AAA title. To others, GameStop is a painful reminder of deep losses and a timeless instance of the institutional market manipulation between hedge funds and inventory brokers. And to a devoted few, GameStop is the superstonk and hodling is the easiest way to combat again in opposition to a sport rigged in opposition to retail buyers. However the actual query with GameStop that nobody has answered is that past the headlines, daytrading, and memes – is there an precise enterprise?
On this episode, we’ll cowl the three eras of GameStop – from its dominant management over gaming within the mid 2000’s into an overextended mess all through the 2010’s and eventually to the current day, the place the corporate is deep in a last-ditch-effort to reinvent itself as a tech startup and restore relevancy: diving headfirst into each development – Web3, blockchain, and NFTs. The autumn of GameStop is as a lot a narrative about strategic errors as it’s about market disruption and abandonment. When markets mature and distributors get the possibility to chop out a intermediary and hold extra of the pie for themselves, they may accomplish that ruthlessly and aggressively – even when that very same intermediary, like GameStop, was a useful accomplice for his or her development simply years in the past.
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0:00 Energy to the Gamers
1:32 The Golden Period
12:05 The Wrestle Period
24:39 The Moonshot Period
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