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 25
Communication is key to progress. As our species evolved we learned more efficient ways to share information. A signal can be shorthand for what happens next. The Greeks, Chinese, and Native Americans used smoke signals to share news, signal danger, or gather people together. Today,…
January 17
In Catholicism there are patron saints for everything, including beekeepers (Saint Ambrose), headaches (Saint Bibiana), and coffee (Saint Drogo). Without fail, when an elected official in the US begins referencing the Bible or talking about Jesus, he’s about to advocate for cutting food stamps to…
January 11
I love predictions. Nothing is more certain than the past, nor more uncertain than the future. Similar to a jet launching off an aircraft carrier, predictions ask us to mentally chart a path on the hard surface of the past. We leave the safety of…
January 4
I was planning to review my 2018 predictions, which were AWESOME, and highlight some new ones for 2019: peak Apple, the coming spin of AWS, smart cameras, retail trends, and the best and worst tech stocks for the year. Covered some of that on last…
December 14
I’ve struggled my whole career with getting the easy stuff right. Rallying a team to pull together an insightful, hard-hitting presentation and then showing up to that presentation 15 minutes late and pissing everyone off. After the meeting, getting an email from the client about…
December 7
The UK Parliament released a trove of emails illuminating the inner workings of Facebook. I believe the navel-gazing around "what to do" about Zuck and Sheryl Sandberg has become ridiculous. Each day, a different media outlet calls me and asks, "What can Mark and Sheryl…
November 16
The Prime Minister was describing the Royal Air Force, whose bravery and skill fought off an unstoppable Luftwaffe and cauterized the inevitable invasion of Britain. The blunting of tyranny came at a huge cost. RAF Bomber Command crews suffered a high casualty rate: 55,573 were…
November 9
I'm on the West Coast to meet with the CEO of global tech firm, see my dad, and spend a few days in LA. In addition, I'm doing a bunch of meetings about if and how The Four becomes a documentary, movie, podcast ... dinner…
November 2
Our national dialogue, if that's what you can call it, has gone from coarse to vile. I appear on business television about once a week. Live TV is hard; the people are nice, and I've convinced myself it's a good regular challenge. CNBC, Bloomberg, and…
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