Speaker
Scott Galloway
Appearances over time
23 episodes
Episodes
23
Is an MBA Still Worth It? and the Future of Legacy Media
Apple Sues OpenAI, States Move to Block Paramount Deal, and McConnell Conspiracy Theories
What SpaceX's IPO Means for Tech Stocks, and Coping With Panic Attacks
Why OpenAI Bought a Podcast — with TBPN’s John Coogan and Jordi Hays
Why AI Stocks Are Overvalued + Are Networking Events Actually Worth It?
Trump's Crypto Windfall, Dems' Anti-Establishment Wave, and the Supreme Court’s Big Week
What Comes After the Iran War? — with Rep. Jim Himes
How to Build Wealth on Less Than $60K a Year + Investing for Retirement Income (ft. Nick Maggiulli)
Comcast Splits, OpenAI Weighs IPO Delay, and Buttigieg Targeted
Is Wall Street Rigging the Game for SpaceX? Plus, What Investment Banking Really Teaches You
Meta’s Prediction Market App, Europe vs. Big Tech, and Hollywood’s Comeback
The Crisis of Adulthood — with John Burn-Murdoch
Rebranding the Democratic Party + The College Affordability Crisis
Starmer Resigns, Reflecting Pool Fiasco, and Amazon Dumps OpenAI Movie
Trump's Iran Deal, SpaceX’s Wild Ride, and Snap’s Specs
America at 250 — with Heather Cox Richardson
Anthropic's Insane Valuation + The Future of Marketing
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
Why People Are Losing Faith in Healthcare
Scott Galloway: AI Wasn’t Built For You. The Rich Don’t Need You Anymore!
Prof G Markets: Google’s Quantum Breakthrough & The World Cup Goes to Saudi Arabia
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
SpaceX only floated 5% of shares at its IPO, creating engineered scarcity that manufactured a ~20% first-day pop.
About a quarter of a million students are currently enrolled in MBA programs globally, making the MBA the most popular graduate degree in the US.
Approximately two-thirds of Eli Lilly's total sales come from GLP-1-related products, making it essentially a pure-play index fund on the technology.
The UK as a whole now has a lower average household income than Mississippi, the poorest US state, underscoring Britain's post-Brexit economic decline.
TBPN was acquired by OpenAI for a rumored $200-300M just 17 months after launching, making it likely the youngest podcast ever sold for 9 figures.
Comcast's media division reported a 40% increase in revenue to nearly $12 billion in a single quarter, while the connectivity division shrank 3%.
US universities collectively hold nearly $1 trillion in endowed assets across 657 institutions.
Trump claimed the reflecting pool renovation cost $1.6M but it actually cost $16M — a tenfold overstatement.
When Trump tore up the JCPOA, Iran's enriched uranium was at 3.7%; it is now at 60%, just a short step from weapons-grade material.
Anthropic is in talks to raise money at a $900 billion pre-money valuation, exceeding Walmart's ~$1 trillion market cap despite radically smaller revenues.
The creator economy now dominates Cannes Lions, with 500 creators attending in 2026 versus 400 the prior year, displacing traditional ad-agency executives as the festival's power players.
Worldwide AI spending is forecast to total $2.6 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase year over year.
The only income cohort with a positive view of AI is people earning over $200,000 a year, who see it fuelling portfolios rather than threatening jobs.
The Magnificent 10 companies now make up roughly 40–43% of the S&P 500, meaning index fund investors are far less diversified than they think.
SpaceX reached a $2.8 trillion market cap after its IPO, making it one of the most valuable companies ever listed.
Galloway worked 14-hour days when his kids were babies, missed physical growth milestones, and has no regrets — but only because he had explicit partner alignment on the trade-off. There is no balance. There are only conscious choices.
We have replaced religion with tech worship, and tech CEOs have become our new gods. But they are doing exactly what capitalism demands: maximising earnings, not saving humanity. The journey from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader just keeps getting shorter.
Tesla is a great car company that should trade at 30 times earnings, not 150. When SpaceX IPOs, the 'Musk Riz' money currently parked in Tesla will migrate there, leaving Tesla priced as what it is: a premium auto company, not a tech conglomerate.
The real AI job threat isn't automation replacing workers — it's one AI-fluent person replacing five. A single analyst armed with AI agents can do the work previously requiring an entire team. This is the reshaping that matters.
The most underrated life skill is the ability to tolerate rejection — and young men are losing it. Frictionless online relationships mean fewer face-to-face refusals, fewer chances to build resilience. Galloway's mentoring prescription: go get rejected on purpose.
The AI risk nobody talks about is loneliness. Digital relationships give people a convincing imitation of a social life. When 42% of men aged 18–24 have never asked a woman out in person, and men 20–30 spend less time outside than prisoners, the real cost of AI is human connection.
Roughly one in three billionaires has an escape plan: a private jet to New Zealand and a bunker. But Galloway punctures the fantasy — your pilots will mutiny and locals will raid your compound. The resources spent on go bags should go toward making the world they're fleeing worth staying in.
The US military operation against Iran was tactically brilliant and strategically disastrous. Not briefing Congress, not enlisting allies, not gaming out the Strait of Hormuz — these failures have gifted Iran a weapon potentially more powerful than nuclear capability: the ability to turn off global oil flows.
Galloway spent decades optimising every relationship for ROI and felt empty. Purpose arrived only when he found something — his children — that he could never profit from. The insight: purpose lives precisely where the ledger stops working.
America's billionaires have exited shared society. Private jets bypass TSA. Concierge medicine bypasses the healthcare system. Private schools bypass underfunded public ones. When the people with the most political influence have zero stake in public goods, public goods deteriorate.
Since November 5th, Elon Musk has added 66% to his net worth, pocketing $4 billion every single day. Scott Galloway calls it outright dangerous for democracy.
Warner Bros. Discovery splitting into two operating units — streaming/studio and linear TV — is not just a reorganization. It's Zaslav setting the table for a spin, and the 14% stock jump proves the market already sees it that way.
The top 1% of drinkers account for 30-40% of all alcohol consumed — and those heavy drinkers are first in line for GLP-1 prescriptions. If those people quit drinking, the drinks industrial complex faces a 20-30% revenue collapse, mass layoffs, and a restructuring as brutal as cable TV.
Classical computers process 1s and 0s. Quantum computers analyze the probability of a coin being heads or tails while it's still in the air. Google's Willow chip is a breakthrough because it solves quantum's biggest problem: the more qubits you add, the more accurate it gets rather than the more errors it makes.
Positive views of AI are essentially a wealth test. Only earners above $200k see AI as good news — they watch their portfolios appreciate. Everyone else sees higher electricity bills and no stake in the upside.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Business 33%
- Society & Culture 19%
- Government 16%
- Technology 14%
- Education 8%
- Health & Fitness 6%
- News 2%
- Sports 1%
- Arts 1%
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