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today we're counting down our picks for chief executive officers currently in especially tenuous positions.

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Number 10 Ryan Cohen, GameStop the infamous Gamestop stapler that damaged a Nintendo switch starting what had been dubbed the staple gate, has now hit the auction block and for a good cause.

This morning we are talking to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, who's a little bit behind some of this.

For decades, GameStop has been one of America's largest gaming retailers.

During the 2010s, their profits began declining as online shopping became increasingly popular.

The company did experience an infamous short squeeze of their stock in 2021, which helped them stick around for longer.

Since 2023, Ryan Cohen has been their CEO and he's tried a few things to fix the company, but

That's because GameStop, which sells video games and consoles, is not doing well.

Their sales are plummeting and their stores are shuttering.

Most analysts say profitability is still years away.

One catastrophic idea this Decade was a GameStop NFT marketplace.

In early 2025, they shut down over 400 stores and have tried to pivot to becoming an online seller.

But not everyone is optimistic about this plan.

They are blockbuster and absolutely physical retail is going away.

Number nine Jim Farley, Ford I'm just an old car person and I guess I wrote the op ed because I think many of us at Ford started to get tired of all the politics in the EV business.

And I guess from my perspective, it's time to really take a step back and reflect on what it's like to actually drive an electric vehicle.

One of America's most famous car companies has been around for over 120 years, making you think it would be impossible for them to fail.

Since 2020, they've been led by Jim Farley, who has overseen some drastic changes.

One of his greatest gambles has been their new EV strategy.

This pivot to manufacturing cost efficient electric cars isn't expected to make them any profit.

Can you, can you quantify that in terms of like F150 units or expedition and Navigator units?

How hard did it hit you or will it hit you in the fourth quarter?

In fact, they predict they won't break even until 2029.

Since 2022, their EV sector has lost over $16 billion from this endeavor.

They're gambling on a new production method that will save them in 2027, but

it's unclear if they can hold out that long.

There are parts fasteners, wiring looms from other countries and we pay our tariffs sometimes up to 70% on those parts.

And in the end of the day, it's all these workers.

Number 8 Michael Fiddle Key Target Target has been a staple of American high streets for decades.

They've also had too many controversies to count making brand new CEO Michael Fiddle Key job a bit of a poison chalice.

The branding for this pressure campaign is we ain't buying it.

Organizers want you to pull back from spending money at Target and Home Depot and Amazon now.

In a press release, they say the companies have caved to Donald Trump's bigoted and anti democratic attacks on our communities and our values from cravenly abandoning their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion.

One major source of backlash was the rollback of their diversity, equity and inclusion policies in 2025.

This led to some widespread boycotts in February 2025, causing them to lose $12.4 billion in stocks.

There's Target this morning announcing it has chosen its next leader in the wake of the retailers sluggish sales and stock price.

CEO and company veteran Michael Fiddle Key will succeed Brian Cornell as CEO in February of next year.

Fiddle Key is now scrambling to save the day, hoping he can reconnect the not everyone thinks he's the man for the job though, but

It's a really complicated time for Target because it's facing a whole host of challenges and that really came through in my interviews with customers, former employees and suppliers that the company is not only facing things like backlash to its DI decisions, but

also and stiffer competition from Wal Mart.

But also it's facing a lot of challenges with a lot of the traits that it was once known for.

Number 7 George Kurtz CrowdStrike Global computer systems in health care, banking and airlines are slowly coming back online after a digital outage disrupted networks in many countries.

The crisis was caused by a faulty software update which affected Microsoft Windows systems, but

it could be some time before all the backlogs are cleared.

This cybersecurity company was founded by Kurtz, who has been the company's CEO for its entire existence.

From at least 2023 onwards, their annual net income has consistently declined.

This is guaranteed to be because of the company's historic blunders.

The most Famous came in 2024, when their software update bricked Microsoft systems globally.

The which was one of history's largest IT outages.

Are you fighting any subpoenas or you just said, okay, we'll send you everything we have.

I mean, they ask a question, we answer the question, we'll tell them what we know.

To try to repair their reputation, they apologized to partners alongside giving them $10 Uber eats gift cards.

Many viewed this as a pitiful concession for shutting down many major services, including many emergency hotlines.

So all of the challenges that we've seen over the many years of humans getting themselves into trouble is only going to be exasperated by agentic AI.

And we need security like CrowdStrike is delivering to protect it.

In the late 2010s, public opinion of Boeing went out the window after their infamous 737 Max scandal.

These models were considered unsafe after two horrific plane crashes.

Well, I think the important thing here, again, is we're very focused on safety.

And I can tell you that both of these accidents weigh heavily on us as a company.

I've had the privilege of working for the Boeing Co.

For 34 years, and we know that lives depend on what we do.

Issues are still being ironed out with a nearly catastrophic accident happening in January 2024.

Since March of the same year, Stephanie Pope has been the company's CEO.

Sadly for Pope, many people have called this a glass cliff position.

This is when a woman or someone from an underrepresented group is given an executive position during a crisis.

If this is the case, she's likely doomed to fail.

It pushed them to pretend like their new plane behaved exactly like their old one, even when it didn't.

Number five, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Platforms, Inc.

Imagine you put on your glasses or headset, and you're instantly in your home space.

Facebook is a platform that's been around so long, it's unlikely to ever vanish.

Their 3D virtual reality, the Metaverse, seems unlikely to ever take off.

After these failed endeavors, Reality Labs, which used to be called Oculus VR, reportedly lost the company $4.4 billion in Q3 2025.

They've since made major cuts to spending on this sector, pivoting to AI.

So Zuckerberg's experimental decisions haven't proved lucrative, but they still own Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

That's a glimpse of a few ways that we're going to be able to get together and socialize in the metaverse.

Unlike other AI companies, they're developing the technology to sell adverts rather than the AI being the product itself.

I find that it just makes it easier to follow along.

But if you have an issue hearing, then I think that this is going to be a game changer.

Number four Sam Altman OpenAI it is true that the expectation of what we'll have for someone in a particular job increases, but

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