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
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
January 17
4-min read In 2015 one of my students asked me to invest in his business. He was sourcing cotton in Egypt, milling it in Israel, and then landing a set of sheet sets, duvets, and pillows in Brooklyn for $79 that he would sell for…
January 10
4-min read Sometimes it’s darkest before it’s … pitch black. Things are going from bad to worse at SoftBank. Since January 2019, Vision Fund firms have laid off over 10,700 employees — more than 2x the workforce of Twitter. And last year will soon be…
January 3
6-min read There has never been a better time to be remarkable, nor a worse time to be unremarkable. People who highlight that the average American is better off than the richest person 100 years ago are, similar to someone telling you to follow your…
December 20
7-min read In the next 24 months, FedEx will either be acquired or lose an additional 40%+ in value. The likely acquirer is Walmart. The gangster move: a merger with Shopify. In July 2017 we predicted, “If Bezos tomorrow said, ‘We see overnight delivery as…
December 13
5-min read The Dunning-Kruger effect posits that dumb people are too stupid to know they are dumb. They are not perplexed by difficult situations but overconfident — not knowing what they don’t know. As few people believe they are stupid, or a bad driver, a…
December 6
5-min read To: Omid R. KordestaniExecutive Chairman Twitter, Inc.1355 Market Street, Suite 900San Francisco, CA 94103 December 6, 2019 Mr. Kordestani, A part-time CEO who is relocating to Africa? Enough already. My name is Scott Galloway (@profgalloway). I am a Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School…
November 22
5-min read My NYU colleague professor Adam Alter has conducted research confirming that the most enduring of the senses is smell. Smell can take you back to age five, to that anxiety that sharply arose when your mother was tucking you in. Mom dousing herself…
November 15
5-min read Survival — the pursuit of more time — is the most basic instinct. Procreation is a distant number 2. But 1a, making the most of your time, is survival instinct coupled with capitalism. Communism was intended as a more noble system — economic…
November 8
3-min read Couldn’t decide on any one, super-cool thing that’s crazy insightful or makes me cry while writing it, so … some thoughts on this week. Another Nail At my first firm, Prophet, we roamed the world preaching, to Global 500 firms, that the only…
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
