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
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…
July 12
Lately, I'm anxious. Like, all the time. . Or, glass half full … I'm uber-zen and only concerned about two things: — Every person on earth and their opinion of me — The crushing weight of being alive Things that help: alcohol, exercise, being around my…
June 21
Today I'm announcing a new cryptocurrency, the ProfG Coin. It will be available to users on the most powerful, secure, closed network known to the modern economy … AOL. (2.1 million people still use AOL for dial-up.) While other cryptos claim to serve the unbanked,…
June 7
P.S. More of my love letter to DOJ & FTC on today's Pivot with Kara Swisher.
May 31
Last Day at L2 Today is my last day at L2, the firm I founded a decade ago and that was sold two years ago. One of the many rewarding things about starting a company is you feel tremendous maternal/paternal reward (and sometimes disappointment), as…
May 10
I'm on my book tour (The Algebra of Happiness, Penguin Portfolio), and I’m spent. The 30-40 interviews, talks, and podcasts have me not just tired, but sated on … me. Talking about happiness this much feels like virtue signaling, or the third bag of SweeTarts…
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
