Scott Galloway
NYU Brand Strategy & Digital Marketing Professor; Author, The Four & The Algebra of Happiness; Co-Host oF “Pivot” Podcast on Vox Media
Biography
• Scott Galloway is a Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. • He has founded nine companies, including Prophet, Red Envelope, L2, and Section4, and was named one of the world’s best business professors by Poets & Quants. • Galloway is the New York Times bestselling author of The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity, and Adrift: America in 100 Charts. • He has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, and Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. • His award-winning Prof G and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy / No Malice blog, and Prof G YouTube channel reach millions. • Adweek awarded Pivot the Business Podcast of the Year. Scott Galloway is a serial entrepreneur and a professor of marketing at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University (NYU). Poets & Quants named him one of the “world’s best business professors.” Mr. Galloway has founded nine companies, including Prophet, a global brand strategy consultancy with 250+ professionals; Red Envelope, an e-commerce firm; L2, a subscription business intelligence firm serving prestige brands; and Section4, which equips curious, ambitious thinkers with the business know-how they need to excel. He is the bestselling author of The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google; The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning; and Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity; and Adrift: America in 100 Charts. Mr. Galloway has served on the boards of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, and the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley. His Prof G and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy/No Malice blog, and Prof G YouTube channel reach an audience of millions. Galloway has won multiple Webby and Best Business Podcast awards.
Speech Topics
The Algebra of Happiness
What’s the formula for a life well-lived? Scott Galloway has spent the greater half of his career trying to find out. Melding personal experiences with research from the fields of finance, psychology, and anthropology, Professor Galloway created the Algebra of Happiness. This session will give you Scott’s cheat sheet to squeezing the juice out of life. This talk is based on the viral YouTube video.
Dog Days
In this session, Scott Galloway provides a No Mercy / No Malice perspective on the biggest trends, strategies, and innovations that separate winners and losers in today's digital economy. From the dominance and behaviors of Amazon and Facebook, to network effects and recurring revenue, Scott will highlight which winners & losers have emerged, what you can learn from them, and how they will impact the future of business.
Streaming Wars
In this session, Professor Scott Galloway provides a No Mercy / No Malice perspective on the biggest trends, strategies, and innovations in the video and content streaming industry today. From the streaming landscape to shifts in OTT video and increasing competition in audio, Scott will highlight which winners & losers have emerged and what you can learn from them.
Investing Theses
Scott unpacks his personal investing strategy and the frameworks he uses to evaluate public and private investments. He covers his own equity holdings and private investments and reveals “The Algebra of Wealth,” his personal guide to achieving financial security.
Underhyped vs. Overhyped
Since the Covid pandemic began in 2020, we’ve seen an unprecedented acceleration in business, education, and technology. Prof Galloway cuts through the noise and highlights the products and trends that are receiving too much vs. too little attention and investment. He discusses creative solutions in health tech, higher education, transportation, financial technology, and related fields that will shape the next decade and beyond.
Predictions for the Year Ahead
Scott’s provocative annual predictions for the year ahead, available from October into the new year. In this session, Professor Galloway will take a look back at what he got right or wrong for the previous year, and he will introduce a series of predictions, trends, and dynamics for the upcoming 1-3 years. Scott’s predictions include, but are not limited to, the themes of big tech, industry disruption, healthcare, education, retail, the streaming wars, and more.
Future of Education
Professor Galloway discusses the state of play in the education industry and how supply and demand for higher education have changed (or not) in a post-Covid world. He offers a clear-cut diagnostic of the main challenges facing tertiary education, and provides constructive, original suggestions for increasing accessibility.
Adrift
Professor Galloway explores the state of America today and how we arrived at this precipice. Telling the story through a data-driven lens, Galloway highlights some of the most pressing themes we face as a society and offers his unique take on where we're headed. Topics range from income inequality and the idolatry of tech innovators to government regulation, conscious capitalism, and our own tumultuous relationship with technology.
Industry Deep Dives
Professor Galloway is available for a deep-dive presentation and discussion in industries where he brings substantial experience and expertise including education, commerce and media. He offers a clear diagnostic of the current state of the industry and provides a clear-cut analysis of the challenges and opportunities ahead.
The Algebra of Wealth
Scott shares his thoughts and insights on how to achieve financial security and reveals his personal frameworks for making financial and career decisions. Having founded nine companies, he’s gone from shopping for private jets to a negative net worth in 2008 and back to financial security. This presentation includes personal as well as researched insights and is the basis for an upcoming book in 2024.
AI Optimist
Scott takes a deep dive into the current state of AI. He provides context for its rise and shares his unique perspective on why he is hopeful about its potential to reshape the future, drive innovation, and create new opportunities.
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