The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway
Everything The personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Ranked by repeated personal use, excluding sponsorships.
Personal use in 2 episodes
"Prop Markets research lead did a live stream on Substack on this very topic. She puts together my decks for our speaking gigs and she put together a deck on storytelling and it's still I think to date the most popular live stream we've done on Substack."
▶ 10:45"You might have seen we're also launching on Substack. Go subscribe to ProfG+ at profgdia.com/subscribe"
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I'm going to take this money and upload your Greenlight card, and you can do more Deliveroo or whatever it is you want to do."
▶ 0:21"I'm going to take this money and upload your Greenlight card and you can do more Deliveroo or whatever it is you want to do."
Personal use in 1 episode
"I'm a big fan of it. The best way I would describe it is it takes you back or for me about three or five years. I noticed immediately I was stronger in the gym. My skin felt softer. My voice deepened to touch, healthier, longer erections."
Warned against
"Apple very recently launched basically a copycat of Partiful. Apple Invites. And as soon as that happened, I was thinking, okay, you know, I really like Partiful, but I'm going to assume that Partiful is done now. I haven't received a single Apple invite."
"I think AI, Character AI is kind of the next big threat, if you will. I think the average query on AI is 15 minutes, but the average session on Character AI is 75 minutes."
"I find whenever I ask ChatGPT or Claude and I do ask for advice, it doesn't do a great job. It gives me some sort of whitewashed anodyne answer who is really ridiculously safe and risk aversive giving you just some sort of safe PG-13 material back."
"One of my kids is spending 100 pounds a day on Deliveroo and Uber"
"Facebook or Meta was the heart. We want connections. We want to be loved. We want affirmation. We don't want to be shamed."
"This was the mother of all distractions and hallucinations. It has never made any sense... I put one of these things on for 8 seconds and I'm like, this is so stupid"
"unsubscribe from OpenAI and you post it to your social media, a screenshot of your unsubscription confirmation from OpenAI"
"Social media has kind of shifted from friend to foe, specifically from friend networks to algorithm driven platforms including TikTok that do not have our best interest at heart and elevate content that is incendiary or more conspiracy-minded."
"another one of my kids we just found out is spending £100 a day on Deliveroo and Uber"
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"The upcoming security problem is not going to be from OpenAI and Anthropic."
"you're not seeing a decline in the purchases of site licenses for Anthropic because people are spending more on gas this week"
"depending on how Dario Amade anthropic is feeling"
"Obviously Anthropic's ad where they made fun of the fact that OpenAI is never going to run ads. Interestingly, Anthropic kind of puts themselves in a corner now. They can't run ads unless we all forget about the commercial they ran at the Super Bowl."
"The best ads of the Super Bowl hands down were Anthropic mocking the idea of ChatGPT going into ads. Those ads were outstanding"
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"This summer, OpenAI models escaped a controlled test environment and accessed the systems of AI company Hugging Face during a security evaluation."
"Hugging Face, in turn, went to the open-source model from China, Z.ai, to help contain the damage."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Stanford educators behind Designing Your Life, joined Scott for a live taping of conversations and offered a simple test for choosing someone at the beginning."
"Stanford educators and bestselling authors of Designing Your Life and most recently, How to Live a Meaningful Life."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"BYD, for instance, which is the front runner amongst Chinese EVs, in the second quarter has had pretty good profit growth — 30% year-on-year. I think that's expected to rise with further demand for electric vehicles."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Z.ai, you'll remember, is a major Beijing-based AI company. And that company on Friday released its newest model, GLM 5.3, and used the moment to make a very pointed argument that China's open-weight approach is actually the safer one."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Thursday's Conversations episode was with Dr. Debra Soh, a neuroscientist who studies human sexuality. Her new book is called Sex Extinction."
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"Last Friday, Prof G Markets ran its quarterly review with Aswath Damodaran, the NYU valuation professor Ed calls the dean of valuation."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"On China Decode, James King laid out the scale of the plan."
"Alice Han, director at Green Mantle and co-host of the China Decode podcast."
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"Even releases like Incline from Thinking Machines, which is an American company — what we're seeing is that basically the recipe to build these things, there's no secret sauce."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Other Chinese models like GLM — GLM caused a very big wave. It may not have done the rounds in the same way that Kimi did, but it was certainly a great model."
"Z.ai just launched ZCode, a coding agent for its GLM 5.2 model said to rival ChatGPT 5.5 and Claude. This GLM 5.2 has climbed to the top of the western usage charts on third-party development platforms such as OpenRouter."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"I remember at the end of that essay about Monks in the Casino, I become really initiated in this inversion of risk where the casino economy is turning our young people into monks. That is an unbelievably strange and fascinating phenomenon to me — and fundamentally sad."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"I have to alert everyone to your amazing op-ed with Eric Schmidt in the New York Times in which you talk about your takeaways from your month basically in China over the summer."
"the investigations from the New York Times and other sources were very clear"
Mentioned in 7 episodes
"It was initially rumored that OpenAI was going to put ads in ChatGPT. The general response was this is bad. We don't like ads. But we're the guys who love ads and we think ads are a really powerful business model."
"The hyperscalers that are creating the frontier models, you know, your Claudes and your ChatGPTs, will get first preference."
"89% have used ChatGPT for homework, though many don't consider it cheating. 94% of AI generated work still goes undetected."
"So things like ChatGPT, an AI agent will use much more tokens than a chatbot like ChatGPT"
"it connects to large language models like Claude or DeepSeek or OpenAI's Chat GPT"
"What did you make of OpenAI's decision to start running ads on ChatGPT?"
"Conversational AI systems, including ChatGPT, have started introducing sponsored responses and paid placements"
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Z.ai just launched ZCode, a harness for its model that lets it function as an autonomous coding agent."
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"It is supposed to be as competitive as a new cutting-edge Claude Code or even Cursor."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Shout out to my friend Kevin Xu, who writes the great AI blog Interconnected. He's saying that this is a bigger deal than the DeepSeek moment. And if he says that, I'm listening."
"We'll be joined by the wonderful Kevin Shrew, founder of the technology fund Interconnected Capital, who writes the popular blog Interconnected"
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"It is supposed to be as competitive as a new cutting-edge Claude Code or even Cursor. They're able to covertly track Chinese users of their Claude Code platform."
Mentioned in 6 episodes
"It takes this GLM 5.2 into the arena with some of the best, like Claude Opus 4.8. Almost all of these Chinese LLMs and agents are open source."
"The hyperscalers that are creating the frontier models, you know, your Claudes and your ChatGPTs, will get first preference."
"They can fine-tune it really easily compared to OpenAI or Claude."
"Conversely, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, that's a big American LLM, they cost about 15 US dollars per million output token"
"it connects to large language models like Claude or DeepSeek or OpenAI's Chat GPT"
"Anthropic is kicking the shit out of OpenAI in the enterprise market which I think is the more important part of the market here."
Mentioned in 4 episodes
"DeepSeek has just announced plans to double its headcount in some departments and is preparing to take outside investment for the first time ever."
"DeepSeek demonstrated two things: that China can match frontier AI at a fraction of the US training costs and chip export controls would not stall them."
"you had the Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky saying that Airbnb is actively using Chinese LLMs, models from Deep Seek and Alibaba Qwen"
"it connects to large language models like Claude or DeepSeek or OpenAI's Chat GPT"
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Chinese merchants on Temu and Shein have actually found loopholes through logistic networks and through false import declarations in order to even avoid the de minimis requirements in the US."
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