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Scott Galloway

Né(e): November 3, 1964 – Los Angeles, California, United States

Scott Galloway is a professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author specializing in technology, business strategy, and personal finance. His notable works include The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, Post Corona, and Adrift, with translations into 28 languages and a global audience spanning millions through books, podcasts, and online media.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Scott Galloway was born on November 3, 1964, in Los Angeles, California, to immigrant parents—his father from Scotland and his mother from England. After graduating from UCLA in 1987, Galloway began his career as a fixed income analyst at Morgan Stanley. Early on, he demonstrated entrepreneurial instincts, founding several companies across different sectors. These included the brand consultancy Prophet in 1992, the e-commerce platform RedEnvelope in 1997, and L2, a digital intelligence firm, in 2010. L2 was later acquired by Gartner for $155 million, marking a significant milestone and elevating Galloway's profile as an entrepreneur with a knack for analyzing and predicting digital trends.

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Don’t follow your passion, follow your talent
-The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment
-The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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People who received a great deal of attention for their looks at a young age are more likely to opt for cosmetic procedures when older. It’s the same in business
-The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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In the end, relationships are all that matters
-The Algebra of Happiness
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To love someone completely is the ultimate accomplishment. It tells the universe you matter, you are an agent of survival, evolution, and life
-The Algebra of Happiness
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Until I had kids, my life was 'More . . . I want fucking more.' The only time I’ve ever felt sated, ever, is with my family
-The Algebra of Happiness
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Teach 120 kids on Tuesday nights in my Brand Strategy course. That’s $720,000, or $60,000 per class, in tuition payments, a lot of it financed with debt. I’m good at what I do, but walking in each night, I remind myself we (NYU) are charging kids $500/minute for me and a projector. This. Is. Fucking. Ridiculous
-The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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We live in a caste society in America
-Pronounce - Scott Galloway quotes
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If you acknowledge that our kids are the most important thing in our lives, that everything else we do here is meaningful, but our kids' well-being and prosperity is profound. If you acknowledge that they're doing more poorly than previous generations ... And if you believe we can actually fix these problems and we have the resources ... then I present to you ... Do we love our children?
-TED Talk: How the US Is Destroying Young People's Future

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