Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts. For Scott Galloway speaking inquiries, email speaking@profgmedia.com
September 27
Malcolm Gladwell writes about a fascinating episode in history. Neville Chamberlain's first plane ride was a trip to meet Adolf Hitler. The British Prime Minister was taken by Hitler's charisma. He believed the German leader when he promised not to invade Czechoslovakia. After his triumphant…
September 20
So, the mother of all party crashers took a dump in the We IPO punch bowl. The crasher? Math. The autopsy will show the shelving of this IPO was death by S-1. This was a case of immunities kicking in after the requisite SEC disclosure.…
September 13
They started out benign, a group committed to peace and prosperity in the galaxy. Slowly, they aggregated power and, wanting to maintain that power, turned to the dark side. They built a weapon 900km in diameter, staffed by hundreds of thousands of personnel and robots.…
September 6
Like countless other things, tech has ruined metaphors. Firewall now means "a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules." I'm taking the word back. A firewall is a fire-resistant barrier used to prevent the spread…
August 23
The story we were told about Amazon HQ2: The Seattle giant has outgrown its host city and needs to open a second hub and HQ. They are a thoughtful, data-driven firm and devise a process to vet cities, including municipalities that might not traditionally be…
August 19
Tumblr is being sold for $3 million, a 99.7% destruction of the $1.1 billion Yahoo paid for the porn site in 2013. When the previous sentence said "porn," you were shaken. Why? Because the nice people who backed Tumblr (Union Square Ventures, USV), before they…
August 16
Really? Really? I've started nine firms and I'm, generously, 3-4-2 (win-lose-tie). In retrospect, and I think about this a lot, the only reliable forward-looking indicator of our firm’s success or failure was … timing. Specifically, the part of the economic cycle at founding. The firms…
August 9
Last week Volkswagen announced they are more closely linking the parent brand with the Porsche and Audi badges. The iconic sports and luxury brands would now be "Porsche by VW" and "Audi by VW." Ironically, on the same day, Boeing announced it was adding the…
July 26
Happiness is a function not only of what you have, but also what you don't have. It’s great to have freedom from worry. We, Americans, take a lot of this type of freedom for granted. People who can't swim jump into rivers, with toddlers on…
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