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Podcast: CNBC's "Fast Money"
Episode: CNBC Special: Making of the Meme King Part 1
Description: Part One: "A scrappy kid from Canada makes it big in America"
Building Chewy into an e-commerce giant made Ryan Cohen a hot commodity on Wall Street, but jumping into the online frenzy around GameStop and Bed Bath & Beyond transformed him into an icon for a generation of individual investors hell-bent on turning American finance upside-down. In Part 1 of this two-episode podcast, CNBC Documentaries digs deep into Cohen’s unorthodox background and the bold, often controversial moves that earned him nicknames such as Papa Cohen and the Meme-Stock King.