GameStop 株 低迷s after it 解雇する／砲火／射撃s former アマゾン (n)役員／(a)執行力のある
GameStop 株 急落（する），激減（する）d before the 開始 bell after the company 解雇する／砲火／射撃d 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Matthew Furlong, the former アマゾン (n)役員／(a)執行力のある brought in two years ago to turn the struggling videogame retailer around.
The company gave no 推論する／理由 for the 解雇／（訴訟の）却下 and 指名するd Ryan Cohen, the company’s biggest 投資家, as (n)役員／(a)執行力のある chairman.
Mr Cohen sent a cryptic tweet that read “Not for long” around the time the company 発表するd Mr Furlong’s 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing.
GameStop said Mr Cohen will 監督する 投資 and 管理／経営 of the company.
株 宙返り／暴落するd more than 19% in premarket 貿易（する）ing on Thursday.
Mr Furlong was 指名するd GameStop’s 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある in June 2021 with the 委任統治（領） of 長，率いるing the company’s 数字表示式の remake.
He was the (n)役員／(a)執行力のある who oversaw アマゾン’s Australia 商売／仕事 and spent nine years with the company.
Mr Furlong was one of two アマゾン (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs 雇うd at the time, the other 存在 マイク Recupero, 雇うd as GameStop’s 長，指導者 財政上の officer.
Mr Cohen’s 持つ／拘留するing company RC 投機・賭けるs is the biggest 投資家 in GameStop, 持つ／拘留するing an だいたい 12% 火刑／賭ける.
Mr Cohen co-設立するd Chewy, the online pet 供給（する） company, and had hoped to modernise GameStop, 設立するd in 1984.
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Mr Cohen began snapping up large 火刑／賭けるs of GameStop at a time when the Texas company was 存在 buffeted by new 科学（工学）技術.
Gamers no longer needed GameStop because they were downloading games rather than buying 数字表示式の レコードs.
Mr Furlong and other (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs were brought it to 遂行する／発効させる Mr Cohen’s goal of getting GameStop more online.
After building a 大規模な 火刑／賭ける, Mr Cohen joined GameStop’s board in January 2021, along with two of his former Chewy 同僚s.
GameStop became the embodiment of the “meme 在庫／株” craze two years ago, when a fanatical 禁止（する）d of smaller-pocketed and novice 投資家s encouraged each other to pile in.
That helped 誘発する／引き起こす a “short squeeze” on larger institutional 塀で囲む Street 会社／堅いs betting the company would continue to flounder.
The gambit worked and 株 spiked more than 8,000% in 2021.
株 have fallen 徹底的に since then and now 貿易（する） for around 20 US dollars (£16) each, which was about the cost of a 株 before the meme craze.
