Scott Galloway

Scott Galloway (born November 3, 1964) is an American academic, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur.

He is professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business.

Early life and education Galloway was born in San Diego and grew up in Los Angeles, California.

Following his graduation from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987, Galloway worked as a fixed income analyst at Morgan Stanley. He then went on to earn his MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, graduating in 1992.

In 1999, he was elected to the 1999 class of the World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders of Tomorrow", which recognizes 100 individuals under the age of 40 whose accomplishments have had an impact on a global level.

In 2010, Galloway founded the digital intelligence firm L2 Inc, which was acquired in March 2017 by Gartner for $155 million, and the now defunct Firebrand Partners, founded in 2005, an activist hedge fund that invested over $1 billion in U.S. consumer and media companies.

In 2019, he founded the executive-education startup section (formerly Section 4), which raised in Series A funding led by General Catalyst in 2021, bringing total funding to about .

Galloway has served on the board of directors of Eddie Bauer, The New York Times Company, Gateway Computer, Urban Outfitters, and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He is also known for his public presentations and TED-style talks, called Winners & Losers, in which he presented L2's Digital IQ Index results, ranking over global brands across numerous dimensions including e-commerce, social media, and digital marketing.

Galloway teaches brand management and digital marketing to second-year MBA students.

In September 2018, Recode and the Vox Media launched Pivot, a weekly news commentary podcast co-hosted by Kara Swisher and Galloway.

In February 2020, Galloway launched The Prof G Show, a weekly podcast answering listener questions on business, money, and technology.

On September 28, 2021, CNN announced that Galloway would be a host on its CNN+ streaming platform, but the platform went off the air shortly after launching.

In 2022, Galloway's weekly newsletter No Mercy/No Malice won the Webby Award and Webby's People's Voice Award for best business, news and technology websites and mobile sites.

In 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Galloway to the Regents of the University of California.

Positions Since 2017, Galloway has repeatedly called for U.S. government antitrust intervention against the four consumer technology companies—Apple, Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Alphabet—in order to break them up.

His argument for structural remedies against large technology platforms has been the subject of independent coverage and debate beyond his own columns, including a lengthy 2018 feature in Esquire and critical analysis by policy commentators.

In 2019, Galloway endorsed Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential candidacy, saying that he "fulfills the Democrats' need for a strong centrist candidate".

In December 2019, he called for the removal of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey while also disclosing that he owned more than shares of Twitter stock.

In February 2026, he called for consumers to unsubscribe from large tech platforms as a form of economic protest of Trump and his policies.

Personal life Galloway met his second wife, Beata Galloway, a real estate developer born in Poland, at the Raleigh Hotel pool in Miami. She is 17 years his junior. They have two sons together.

Galloway is Jewish but philosophically atheist.

Philanthropy In 2017, Galloway donated to UC Berkeley for immigrant student fellowships as well as smaller sums to UCLA and NYU. In July 2024, he donated to UCLA and UC Berkeley to establish the UC "Excelerator" program.

In popular culture Galloway is played by Kelly AuCoin in the 2022 television miniseries WeCrashed. When asked why Galloway was included in the show, co-creators Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello credited Galloway's critical blog post about WeWork as a "the Emperor has no clothes" moment for them, meaning that Galloway opened their eyes to the impending doom of WeWork, eventually inspiring the show. Galloway also has a voice-only cameo in season 3 of The White Lotus, where he plays Timothy's lawyer, Chuck.