Scott Galloway

Scott Galloway is a clinical professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to MBA students and has been recognized by Poets & Quants as one of the world's best business-school professors. He earned his BA from UCLA and his MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and has served on public-company boards including The New York Times Company and Urban Outfitters.

He is also a serial entrepreneur who has founded nine companies. Among them: Prophet, a brand and marketing consultancy; the e-commerce gifting company RedEnvelope; the digital-intelligence firm L2, which he sold to Gartner in 2017 for roughly $155 million; and Section, an executive-education startup he launched in 2019 that has raised tens of millions in venture funding.

Today Galloway may be best known as "Prof G." Through Prof G Media he hosts The Prof G Pod, co-hosts the tech-and-politics podcast Pivot with Kara Swisher, and has launched spin-offs including Prof G Markets and Raging Moderates — a portfolio that, alongside his No Mercy / No Malice newsletter and YouTube channel, reaches millions every week. His 2024 TED talk on the economic plight of young people became the No. 1 TED Talk of that year.

He is a New York Times bestselling author whose books include The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, Post Corona, Adrift: America in 100 Charts, The Algebra of Wealth, and the 2025 memoir Notes on Being a Man. His public message is as much about values as valuations: he has said the point of building wealth is ultimately to spend it or give it away — a throughline in a body of work built on candor, data, and a belief that clear-eyed honesty beats comfortable spin.