Scott Galloway
Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern. On 4 shows, 7 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Scott Galloway is a Professor of Marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur who founded Prophet, Red Envelope, and L2 Inc. He is a bestselling author and co-hosts the Pivot podcast.
4shows
7appearances
185statements
61resolved
25supported
15contradicted
41%fully supported
83said about them ↓ Everything Scott Galloway said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Galloway: GLP-1 adoption could put entire hospital networks out of business
“Hospital networks, entire hospital networks could go out of business if they're really honest.”
Galloway: VCs launch smear campaigns against critics threatening their profits
“I would say don't never get in between a venture capitalist and their second million, because they will take to Twitter and call you a plagiarist or accuse you of having done terrible things at NYU, which you've never Ever been accused of, much less people hav…”
Galloway: 30-Year-Old Americans Are Less Wealthy Than Parents Were at 30
“The average seven year old is 72% wealthier than they were 40 years ago. The average forty-year-old is 24, a person under the age of 40 is 24% less wealthy, and for the first time in our nation's history, a thirty-year-old man or woman isn't as wealthy as his …”
Galloway: Harvard Grew Endowment 4,000% While Class Size Grew 4%
“Harvard, fifty-four billion dollars in endowment, It's grown its endowment 4000% in the last 30 or 40 years, up forty-fold. It's grown its freshman class size four percent.”
Galloway: Mississippi Average Household Income Equals or Exceeds UK and Germany
“If you take the poor state, Mississippi, the average household income there is still the same or higher than it is in the UK, Germany, South Korea, Japan.”
Galloway: Corporate Taxes Lowest Since 1938, Top 25 Pay 6% to 8%
“Corporations are paying the lowest tax rate since 1938. The super rich, not the near rich, but the super rich, the wealthiest 25 Americans pay an average tax rate of six to eight percent.”
Galloway: Failed US Treasury auctions will eventually cause interest rates to skyrocket
“At some point, the Chinese or whoever aren't going to show up for one of our treasury auctions, and interest rates are going to skyrocket, and you're going to have, you know, shit's going to get real pretty fast.”
Galloway: 40% of US government spending goes to seniors, heading to 50%
“40% of all spending right now, government spending, goes to seniors. It's about to be 50%, which lowers the amount of money we can invest in technology, R&D, and education, which have a much bigger payoff.”
Galloway: Career Passion Comes From Mastery and Economic Security
“Passion comes from artistry, mastery, and economic security.”
Galloway: The US Corporation Is the Greatest Wealth Creator in History
“If you have access to corporate America, the US corporation is the greatest wealth creator in history.”
Galloway: Business School Is for the 'Elite and the Aimless'
“I describe business school for the elite and the aimless. Ooh. You're good at what you do, you're smart, you want to make money, you're disciplined, but you have no idea what you want to do. We all try to sound very focused in our business school applications,…”
Galloway predicts 3:2 ratio of female to male college grads within five years
“In the next five years, there's going to be three female college grads for every two male college grads.”
Galloway: 66% of women under 30 have boyfriends vs 33% of young men
“Two out of three women under the age of 30 has a boyfriend. One out of three men under the age of 30 has a girlfriend. Why? Because women are dating older.”
Galloway cites extreme disparities in male suicide, addiction, homelessness, and incarceration
“Young men are four times as likely to kill themselves. They're three times as likely to be addicted. They're three times as likely to be homeless. They're 12 times as likely to be incarcerated.”
Galloway: Signaling resources is the primary factor attracting women to men
“Women are generally attracted to men for three reasons. The third is kindness. They want someone who's going to be a long-term partner. The second is intellect. If you're funny, really lean into it because the fastest way to communicate intellect and men who m…”
Galloway: Historically 80% of women procreated versus 40% of men
“80% of women have procreated. It's only 40% of men throughout history.”
Galloway: Hiring hardworking young talent is corporate America's ultimate labor arbitrage
“The ultimate arbitrage in our economy is fossil fuels, but the second of that is finding young, super hardworking, super talented people who are better with technology, and paying them 30% of what you're paying Bob, who's a 40 year old, and they do 90, they ad…”
Galloway spends $1.5M to $2M annually on fractional private jets
“It's about, I spend about one and a half or two million dollars a year, but a friend of mine from high school I really like,
A Mormon kid getting married in a weird place.
I'm gone.
Why?
Because I have a f***ing private plane.”
Galloway says billionaires buying art and wine remain uncultured douchebags
“Art and wine. Art is I'm trying to buy culture. I've been a boring douchebag my whole life. So all of a sudden I'm going to start overspending on art and it makes me interesting. No, it doesn't. You're still the same douchebag.”
Galloway is selling his American stocks to diversify and avoid losing
“Yeah, I'm selling down my American stocks, mostly because I'm diversifying, because I don't want to lose.”
Galloway: American equities are too expensive while Europe is on sale
“I think America's too expensive right now. I think Europe's on sale.”
Galloway: $40B child tax credit was stripped while $120B Social Security COLA passed
“Forty billion dollar child tax credit that would benefit young families stripped out of the infrastructure bill, but the hundred and twenty billion dollar cost of living adjustment for Social Security flies right through.”
Galloway: Investment returns inversely correlate with an industry's sexiness
“Your return on your invested capital is inversely correlated to how sexy and cool an industry sounds.”
The other half of the tape: Scott Galloway's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 77 times in 28 episodes across the shows. 6 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sam Parr 30Shaan Puri 17Codie Sanchez 13Thomas Braziel 3Harry Stebbings 2Calley Means 2Patrick Spence 1Morgan Housel 1
Statements about Scott Galloway, by other people (6)
Sanchez: U.S. social programs are stealing from youth to pay older generations
“In fact, Scott Galloway has an incredible Ted talk basically talking about how these programs are stealing from the youth to give to the next generation. And I think that is actually true. I think if you are a mom, a dad, a grandma, a grandpa, and you look at …”
Braziel pitched Scott Galloway FTX claims at 20 cents for 30-cent returns
“The whole pitch on FTX with Scott was, which is, you're buying a stake, you're buying 20 cents, you know, you're gonna get 30 cents in cash back, plus you have all this crypto sizzle.”
Parr: Scott Galloway bought $1M FTX claim for $250k and sold for $900k
“Scott said the numbers. He goes, I bought 250,000 dollars worth and I sold, I bought a million dollar claim for two 50 and I sold it for 90% of the million. So he like tripled his money.”
Galloway: Board equity earned him more money than building companies
“He said, I've made more money being on board, on the boards of companies and the equity that they've given me than actual, actually building companies.”
Puri: An Anti-Galloway Index returned 23% even excluding Tesla
“Even if you, it says even if you exclude Tesla, which was one of his big bets that he said was fail and it took off and said, even without that one, still 23% return.”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
My First Million 53
BigDeal 21
20VC 3
2026 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2025 33 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
- Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M
- How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing
- Harvard Professor: There Is a FORMULA to Happiness | Arthur Brooks
- 20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
- The Easiest Way To Win Online
- The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
- 5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 28 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- “You Need to MOVE OUT of your Hometown to get Rich” (feat. Rob Abasolo and Nathan Barry)
- This Gas Station Pizza Business Makes $540M/Yr?!
- How This Ex-Navy SEAL Turned A Book Into A $1M+ Empire | Jack Carr Interview
- American Policymaker Reveals How Politics REALLY Works | Ryan Streeter
- We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
- The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
- The 2024 Milly Awards
- How the Debt Crisis ACTUALLY Affects You
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2021 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Making Billions with Greeting Cards & Rich People (not) Paying Taxes | My First Million #192
- How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works | My First Million #193
- 20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Scott's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| BIGDEALLEDGER | Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern | 3 | 86 | 38% 16/42 | full record on BigDeal → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern | 2 | 51 | 80% 4/5 | full record on My First Million → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern | 1 | 33 | 33% 4/12 | full record on 20VC → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern | 1 | 15 | 50% 1/2 | full record on Masters of Scale → |