Scott Galloway
22 things Scott uses or recommends, from 19 episodes.
Scott's top picks
What Scott uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Recommends it · talked about in 7 episodes
"From an early age, it goes into low-cost index funds. The only answer I have is slowly and that is figure out a way to make sure that money every month is invested in low-cost index funds."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"For us, it's multiple revenue streams. It's advertising. It's subscription revenue via our Substack, and it's these direct deals."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I just gave Claude Pro, I think, permission to access my Gmail. And it's just... it sounds obvious, but it's just been mind-blowing. I get an email from someone saying, you know, a capital call on a fund I invested in three years ago... I just say, 'What is this?' Look at my Gmail."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I put five grand — I think it was called a 529 — when my kid was born 18 years ago, and he's going to UVA and it's now worth $90,000. So obviously if I had done it every year for four years, which I did not, I probably would have been able to pay for the majority of his education."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"The best car I've ever owned is a Mercedes truck. When I had kids I bought — I think it was a GL. It drives like a sports car but you can have dogs and kids in it. Just an outstanding car. It feels good, it's aspirational without being flashy. Love the car."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"In terms of equities or thinking about this as an investment standpoint, I'm investing in European index funds. One because I'm at a stage where diversification is my call sign for investing. I don't want to get rich, I just don't want to get poor."
What Scott warns against
Things Scott says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"Within about 5 to 7 minutes, I can find eight hours of time from TikTok, from X, from porn, from gambling sites, from YouTube."
"I think OpenAI is going to have to reflect or show numbers that they are losing momentum fast and that their decline in growth cannot justify the spending, the capex commitments they've made. OpenAI is just a drunk spender and their numbers will reflect that."
"Ares Management and Apollo both capped withdrawals at 5% this week after redemption requests came in at more than 11%."
Experts most like Scott Galloway
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All 22 of Scott's picks
- Low-cost index funds Recommends it 7 episodes "From an early age, it goes into low-cost index funds. The only answer I have is slowly and that is figure out a way to make sure that money every month is invested in low-cost index funds." +2 others
- Substack Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "For us, it's multiple revenue streams. It's advertising. It's subscription revenue via our Substack, and it's these direct deals." +27 others
- Claude Uses and recommends it "I just gave Claude Pro, I think, permission to access my Gmail. And it's just... it sounds obvious, but it's just been mind-blowing. I get an email from someone saying, you know, a capital call on a fund I invested in three years ago... I just say, 'What is this?' Look at my Gmail." +212 others
- 529 Plan Uses and recommends it "I put five grand — I think it was called a 529 — when my kid was born 18 years ago, and he's going to UVA and it's now worth $90,000. So obviously if I had done it every year for four years, which I did not, I probably would have been able to pay for the majority of his education." Only Scott
- Mercedes-Benz GL Uses and recommends it "The best car I've ever owned is a Mercedes truck. When I had kids I bought — I think it was a GL. It drives like a sports car but you can have dogs and kids in it. Just an outstanding car. It feels good, it's aspirational without being flashy. Love the car." Only Scott
- European index funds Uses and recommends it "In terms of equities or thinking about this as an investment standpoint, I'm investing in European index funds. One because I'm at a stage where diversification is my call sign for investing. I don't want to get rich, I just don't want to get poor." Only Scott
- Beta blockers Uses and recommends it "If your job requires you to be in intense situations every once in a while, take a beta blocker. Propranolol is the one I take. It basically reduces the sympathetic or the fight-or-flight reaction. Concert pianists and violinists take them." Only Scott
- Zbiotics Uses and recommends it "I just ordered a bunch. It's a fantastic product. I absolutely love that product." Only Scott
- Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc Uses and recommends it "I haul up at my favorite hotel in the world, the Hotel du Cap, and I start drinking rosé around 1:00 p.m." Only Scott
- 529 account Uses and recommends it "You can already open a 529. I put $5,000 in a 529 when my oldest was born. That fund, I just looked at it because my son's going to college in the fall. It's worth $85,000 now." Only Scott
- ChatGPT Uses it "I find that Anthropic is more politically correct. ChatGPT will give it to me straighter." +140 others
- Equinox Uses it "I sign up for Equinox at 250 bucks a month. And I work out three, four times a week — well, I'm never in Soho. I work out there two or three times a year. So I am paying $1,000 a workout." Only Scott
- Incentive Stock Options Recommends it "Equity is how you get wealthy. I have never really saved a lot of money with current income, and I am wealthy because of the equity I've owned in companies. ISOs and options are how, when you meet someone who's really wealthy and they work for a company, typically they've made their money through options and exercising those options." Only Scott
- Fallout Uses it "The most important thing on Wednesday night for me now is watching the new drop of Fallout because my 15-year-old will watch it with me and I just want to spend time with him." +1 other
- Megaphone Uses it "Megaphone, a hosting platform we use at Prof G, changed how it plays on Spotify or accounted. They're getting hip to this. We now get a play each time someone watches or listens to an episode for at least 30 seconds." +1 other
- Diversification Recommends it "Diversification is taking on a new meaning because you're no longer diversified when you're just in the S&P, because 40% of the S&P is just 10 companies. What I tell people to do is not to try and time the markets, but to make sure they're diversified across asset classes. You can start looking at fixed income again, and more importantly, across geographies. I've been divesting some of my US holdings and going into Europe." +2 others
- Propranolol Uses it "Propranolol is the one I take." Only Scott
- Fractional private jet ownership Recommends it "Hands down, fractional is the way to go because you essentially can arbitrage scale up or down based on the mission." Only Scott
- Kellogg School of Management MBA Recommends it "An MBA from Kellogg is going to create a brand halo for the rest of your life in opportunities and networking that will be worth taking out some debt. If you get into Kellogg, it's kind of a no-brainer." Only Scott
- Geographic arbitrage Recommends it "They did what ultimately I did — geographic arbitrage. I moved to Florida where the school we sent our kids to was 12 or $14,000 a year, not $58,000 a year. So we did the geographic arbitrage, which it sounds like what they've done." Only Scott
- Boston College Recommends it "Heather Cox Richardson is a historian at Boston College. By the way, another side note, just finished a college tour with my son. Went to eight schools. Hands down the nicest, warmest vibe was at BC. You guys are doing something right there." Only Scott
- Letters from an American Recommends it "If you're not already reading Heather's work, check it out. Check out Letters from an American." Only Scott