Scott Galloway
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Podcast Appearances
Look, 68 million search queries related to pornography.
Now get this, a quarter of all searches are related to pornography.
Every day, a quarter of the searches which gives you a sense of how big this business is.
One analyst found that porn generates roughly 10% of the comments on Reddit, 13% of X is not safe for work content.
Tumblr, which was a porn site, and they, and I said it was a porn site.
They spent 1.1 billion, Marissa Mayer spent $1.1 billion for a porn site.
And then the, I forgot his name, the venture capitalist with the weird haircut from Union Square Ventures got angry at me and said, Tumblr's amazing, dah, dah, dah, after he had sold all his stock.
Then they announced under pressure they were doing away with porn, and in 60 days, their traffic dropped by 30 percent.
Then that $1.1 billion acquisition, it was sold for, I think, $3 million seven years later.
Porn is enormous online.
When you have young men being pathologized, getting mixed signals around what used to be considered romantic is now creepy,
And they have access to 20.
I mean, just to personalize this, I barely graduated from UCLA, barely.
I had graduated with a 2.27 GPA.
And one of the reasons I went to 60, 70% of my class is not 10% and didn't fail out.
is I wanted to go on to UCLA and see my buddies and see friends, and quite frankly, be around a disproportionate amount of ridiculously hot women who I might get to know and at some point might have a relationship with.
It was very motivating.
And if I had had on-demand- You would have been- Synthetic, lifelike porn-
I mean, how many men, what percentage of men are just not gonna engage?
That's the whole shooting match.