The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Is Scott Friends with Tech CEOs?, Who Should Run in 2028, and Overcoming Rejection
23 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Office Hours with Prop G. This is the part of the show where we answer your questions about business, big tech, entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind. If you'd like to submit a question for next time, you can send a voice recording to officehoursofproptomedia.com. Again, that's officehoursofproptomedia.com.
Or post your question on the Scott Galloway subreddit, and we just might feature it in our next episode. First question. Our first question comes from bduran5 on Instagram. They say, do you ever get heat for your views from biz heads? Um, not really. The few times I've gotten really severe pushback, it hasn't been where you'd expect it.
I'd say the people I have had the most critical views on have been big tech executives. And generally speaking, they're very respectful. And what they want to do, their response when you are critical of them is, hey, Scott, I'd love to meet the next time you're in town. Let's have lunch. And I almost always say no. I don't want to know them.
I have no desire to understand how charming someone is who's figured out a business model to convince young people to start cutting themselves. I have no desire to hear someone's vision for the future of ride hailing. I find these people up close and personal boring and they don't drink, so I have no interest in getting to know them.
I do get some pushback that says, well, you're talking openly about our firm. You have a responsibility. to hear our side. No, I don't. I'm not a fucking journalist. I don't have any responsibility to hang out with a bunch of people to brighten up the room by leaving it. The times I've gotten pushback, kind of unusual.
I wrote a blog post about three years ago talking about how corrupt higher education was and then saying that there were a lot of universities that were sort of in the kill zone or on a ventilator because they did not have the capital to survive a drop in enrollments. They were too dependent upon foreign students with weak grades.
and their admissions rates were so high that it was clearly more like adult daycare. And as soon as they hit a bump in the road, they were gonna go out of business. And I called it the nitroglycerin cocktail of, and I had a framework, it got written up in the Journal of Higher Education. I received three cease and desist letters from universities.
It's just funny that the people who would come after me most aggressively would be other academics.
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Chapter 2: Do tech CEOs push back against critical views?
But in terms of big tech, They're smarter than that. They're nice to you. I love your stuff. Would you like to get together? By the way, would you ever consider speaking at one of our events, for which I'm sure they would pay me my full freight? I don't do that. Sometimes I do take their advertising. We take advertising from Apple and I think from Alphabet.
But generally speaking, the CEOs of these companies got there because they're very, very charming and they can co-opt you. I just meant... I met Bezos recently. He's incredibly charming and likable. I talked to Ted Sarandos on Saturday morning, the CEO of Netflix, who I just think is a wonderful guy. And this is the problem.
And this is why I purposely avoid meeting with or having open communications with them is they co-opt you because they're charming people and you stop speaking your mind. So I've gotten pushback in places I didn't expect it. I've gotten a lot of pushback from VCs, and I couldn't figure out why. And then I looked at their portfolio, and their portfolio is basically a septic tank of shit.
And I have called out or said one of their companies is overvalued, and they decide that's a crime against humanity and then start ā shitposting me online. I've also received some online pushback from Elon Musk. He's called me out a few times, but that's fine. That's probably a symbol that I'm doing something well.
But in general, big tech executives and the executives of companies are very good at what I'll call winning you over or polite pushback. They don't come after you. They just don't do that. So my pushback has been in places I didn't expect it. It's online. I don't know how much of it is bots.
I would say the most pushback I receive is from bots being controlled by the GRU because I've been pro-Ukraine or from the CCP who just want to create agita and dissent wherever there is. If you go onto your feed whenever you say anything political, the really incendiary vile shit is usually DogMom112 with 22 followers.
We have created the most porous propaganda machine in the world that our adversaries can weaponize. But on the whole, I don't get, I wouldn't say I get a ton of pushback. I get some and some criticism that's fair. But no, big tech executives, they're more about trying to co-opt you, win you over, and then create a series of incentives such that you just kind of keep quiet, if you will.
Thanks for the thoughtful question. Question number two also comes from Instagram. They say, who is someone that you would like to see run for president in 28? Almost all of them. I would not like to see Vice President Harris run again. While I think she was handed a difficult situation, I do not think she is a talented candidate.
Also, I think if a woman runs for a third time and loses on the Democratic ticket, we're not going to have a female Democratic president for 50 years. Anyways, I think we have an incredibly strong bench. I'm a big fan of Governor Shapiro and Newsom. I think Secretary Buttigieg is fantastic. I think Governor Whitmer is fantastic. I think Governor Moore is fantastic.
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Chapter 3: How does Scott handle pushback from tech executives?
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