Speaker
Kara Swisher
Appearances over time
9 episodes
Episodes
9
Trump's Crypto Windfall, Dems' Anti-Establishment Wave, and the Supreme Court’s Big Week
201. Trump’s A Crypto Billionaire While Americans Are Getting Poorer
Comcast Splits, OpenAI Weighs IPO Delay, and Buttigieg Targeted
Meta’s Prediction Market App, Europe vs. Big Tech, and Hollywood’s Comeback
Starmer Resigns, Reflecting Pool Fiasco, and Amazon Dumps OpenAI Movie
Trump's Iran Deal, SpaceX’s Wild Ride, and Snap’s Specs
The White House UFC Fight, SpaceX’s Big Pop, and Fox’s Roku Deal
SpaceX IPO: Markets, Morals, and What It Means for You
Trump's AI Stake, SpaceX's IPO Froth, and Apple's Siri Overhaul
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
SpaceX set its share price at $135, giving the company a valuation of roughly $1.77 trillion ahead of its Nasdaq debut.
Trump's financial disclosure showed roughly $1.4 billion in income from crypto, including meme coin sales, while he simultaneously regulates the crypto industry.
SpaceX set its IPO price at $135 a share, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion on the eve of its stock market debut.
The SpaceX IPO is expected to make over 4,000 current and former SpaceX employees millionaires.
U.S. tech giants — Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — control 70% of Europe's cloud market, and 80% of European software spend goes to American companies.
Trump's total income jumped from $622 million in 2024 before his return to the presidency to at least $2.2 billion after, illustrating the monetization of presidential power.
SpaceX shares hit a high of $177 on their first day, giving the company a market cap of $2.32 trillion.
Total domestic U.S. box office in 2026 is estimated at $4.46 billion, the highest figure since 2019, driven by diverse titles beyond superhero blockbusters.
Comcast's stock jumped 21% in pre-market trading Monday after announcing the NBCUniversal and Sky spinoff.
Google agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month over 3 years for computing power including access to at least 110,000 NVIDIA chips.
Fox Corporation is acquiring Roku in a $22 billion deal, creating the third-largest U.S. TV player by share of viewing.
Leaked OpenAI financials showed losses increasing nearly 8x in 2025, with spending hitting $34 billion.
In its first days of trading SpaceX shares surged ~50%, making it the 5th largest company by market cap and surpassing Amazon at roughly $2.35 trillion.
SpaceX announced an all-stock acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion; Cursor's annual sales recently hit $4 billion.
OpenAI was valued at $850 billion in March 2026, but Sam Altman is reportedly holding out for a $1 trillion valuation for the IPO.
SpaceX is heading to market at 94 times revenues — a valuation Scott Galloway says is the clearest froth signal in the market right now. The Google compute deal looks circular: Google spends nearly $1B/month on SpaceX capacity, which inflates SpaceX's valuation, which inflates Google's own 6% stake. Everyone wins until the music stops.
Scott Galloway predicts the biggest bailout since the banks will come disguised as a 'growth opportunity' — a government backstop for AI companies whose infrastructure commitments outpace their actual revenues. Taxpayers will hold the bag while it gets sold as a patriotic investment in American tech leadership.
At 84, Leslie Stahl is in the 1-2% of her age group who still work full-time. Scott Galloway argues she had the perfect exit — the controversy would have guaranteed a standing ovation for the rest of her life — and blew it by staying on at a show being dismantled around her.
Hunter Biden reemerged on X last month and gained 700,000 followers by doing what neither he nor his family has done well: being honest about his flaws. Self-deprecating jokes about crack and White House cocaine have even won over MAGA fans, and there's now a 26% chance on Kalshi he runs for president in 2028.
Scott Galloway paid $7,000 total in tuition across 7 years at UCLA — undergrad and grad school combined — arrived with $300 and an old VW Rabbit, and graduated with just $15,000 in debt. He credits California taxpayers for making him who he is today. That story is becoming impossible at elite private schools.
Google owns 6% of SpaceX — a stake it bought for a song in 2015 when SpaceX was worth $12 billion. Now it's paying SpaceX nearly $1 billion a month for compute. Every dollar spent on that contract inflates SpaceX's revenue multiple, which inflates Google's own equity stake. It's circular, but it's not irrational.
Kara Swisher argues Leslie Stahl is staying at 60 Minutes because she bleeds the show — and because leaving now would forfeit the career retrospective and send-off she deserves. It's part self-interest, part genuine belief she can protect the institution. But Kara thinks management will simply route around her.
Apple's rebuilt Siri runs on a 1.2 trillion parameter Google Gemini model via a deal worth about $1 billion a year to Google. Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher agree it's overdue and possibly too late — and wonder if Siri needs a full rebrand because the name has become synonymous with failure.
A new MIT study found 95% of CFOs say they're not getting the AI returns they expected. Scott Galloway senses a broader vibe shift — the job apocalypse hasn't materialized, the unicorn promises are unmet, and in business circles, AI hype is drawing giant eye rolls. He compares the moment to late 1999.
Trump wants a government stake in AI companies so Americans can 'benefit from success.' Scott Galloway calls it socialism, full stop. Bernie Sanders' 50% tax on AI stocks is equally wrong. The real answer is a more progressive overall tax structure — not industry-specific intervention that distorts capital allocation.
Scott Galloway revealed he was approached about joining 60 Minutes for Andy Rooney-style commentary segments. A year ago he would have paid them for the honor. Now he declined — the reputational risk of associating with the show's current management was too high, even for his dream gig.
Why would anyone perform open-heart surgery on their best-performing player? Scott Galloway breaks down why the moves at 60 Minutes make zero industrial sense on their own — unless you factor in what Trump can give the Ellisons in return. The reward isn't saving 60 Minutes. The reward is tens of billions in regulatory favor.
Nobody buys a Ferrari for efficiency. They buy it for the irrational engine noise that triggers something primal. Scott Galloway calls the new electric Ferrari one of the great brand mistakes of 2026 — the equivalent of Rolex launching a smartwatch or Maker's Mark selling bottled water.
UT Austin got 90,000 applications — up 25% in a year. UCLA gets 160,000. Public flagship universities are surging in demand as families finally realize that elite private schools are luxury goods pretending to be investments. The new dream: get rejected by Harvard, go to Michigan, save $250,000, buy a house.
The Ellisons aren't killing 60 Minutes out of ideology — they've done the math. Scott Galloway argues that the economic upside of currying favor with Trump — deals like TikTok worth tens of billions — dwarfs any value 60 Minutes provides to CBS. It's a cold trade, not a journalistic attack.
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What they talk about
- Government 45%
- Society & Culture 25%
- Business 15%
- News 10%
- Technology 5%
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