SpaceX price-to-sales ratio: 131x
SpaceX trades at 131 times price-to-sales, dwarfing Apple (10.5x), Alphabet (11x), and Meta (7.3x), suggesting extreme valuation premium relative to peers.
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Starmer Resigns, Reflecting Pool Fiasco, and Amazon Dumps OpenAI Movie
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Jun 23, 2026
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The Buy, Borrow, Die Strategy & the Coming Wealth Debate
At 47:16 · chapter starts 44:20
Triggered by the SpaceX discussion, Scott pivots to a clear-eyed breakdown of how extreme wealth actually works. Jeff Bezos holds $120 billion in Amazon shares and funds his lifestyle entirely by borrowing against that stake at low interest rates — no sale, no taxable event. When he dies, the step-up in basis eliminates capital gains for his heirs entirely. Meanwhile, earners pay 30% tax on every dollar of income. Scott calls this the greatest distinction between the wealthy and the not-wealthy — are you an earner or an owner? His policy prescription: any borrowing against assets should trigger a taxable event on the underlying collateral. He frames the coming decade as a necessary national conversation about what we expect of wealth after 30 years of obsessing over how to create it. The segment is one of the episode's most didactic, but Scott keeps it grounded with concrete numbers and a clear moral argument.
The Buy, Borrow, Die Strategy Explained
Jeff Bezos borrows against $120 billion in Amazon shares at low interest rates rather than selling, so there's no taxable event. When he dies, the step-up in valuation means his heirs pay no tax on decades of appreciation. Scott Galloway argues we need laws making borrowing against assets a taxable event.
GLP-1s: The Innovation With Only Positive Externalities
Every new study on GLP-1 drugs comes back positive. Data from the American Clinical Oncology gathering shows metastatic cancer growth rates are cut in half for patients on GLP-1s. Scott Galloway predicts 1 in 2 Americans will eventually be on some form of the drug.
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