Scott Galloway, Author of, “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Summary: Among other topics, Scott discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:<br> <br> * How these companies fulfill our needs for God, love, consumption, and sex<br> * Why society is willing to ignore the destructive policies and behaviors of these companies, and the economic and societal dangers of doing so<br> * The potential benefits of these companies competing against each other<br> * Society’s reverence for founder CEOs<br> * Why the companies should break themselves up<br> * The Amazon singularity: how consumer stocks trades depend on what Amazon is doing in their sector<br> * The new problems that the companies create for tax policy and regulation<br> * Characteristics of the U.S. that fostered the creation and grown of the companies<br> <br>  <br> Scott Gallloway is a Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business. He is the author of, “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.” Scott is also the founder of nine firms including L2, Red Envelope, and Prophet.<br> Scott has served on the board of directors of Eddie Bauer, The New York Times Company, Gateway Computer, and Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.<br> He was elected to the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow” and was named “One of the World’s 50 Best Business School Professors” by Poets &amp; Quants, in 2012.<br> Scott received a B.A. from the University of California –Los Angeles and an MBA from the University of California – Berkeley.<br>