Why We Need to Keep Competition Alive

The point of rules and referees isn’t to stop people from winning. It’s to keep the game alive. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Elon Musk Rollercoaster of Volatility

Does Musk’s stake in Twitter herald a new direction for the social network, or is it another pointless distraction for the Tesla CEO? | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Invention of ‘Jaywalking’

In the 1920s, the public hated cars. So the auto industry fought back — with language. | Continue reading


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The Future of Television

What my string of adventures in TV have taught me about the medium | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Real Potential of NFTs

Amidst the scams and bubbles, credible scarcity and authenticity will unlock real value in digital markets | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

How Russian Oligarchs Stow Away Their Money in the US and UK

Kleptocrats invest in football clubs, luxury apartments, and higher education with few restrictions | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Roblox Is More Than Just a Gaming Platform – It’s a Growing Economy

Our kids understand it better than we do. And it’s training them for the token economy. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Six Ideas to Rescue Higher Education

Nimbyism is killing opportunities for younger folks. Here’s how we could fix it. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Putin Underestimated the Connective Tissue of Capitalism

If your business is producing enemies, at some point those enemies will come for your money. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

For Business, 2022 is Looking a Lot Like 2000

The stock market correction will fundamentally alter the landscape of tech startups and VCs | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

How Apple Will Be First to Do $1 Trillion in Revenue

A trillion in revenue will require stealing markets from incumbents. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Virtual Real Estate Will Be the Next Speculative Frenzy

The American dream of homeownership has become a hallucination — in the metaverse | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Algebra of Decisions

I pulled my podcast from Spotify. Here’s the framework I use to make tough calls. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

What Distinguishes Entrepreneurs from Liars

The line between vision and fraud is only drawn in hindsight | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The False Promise of Web3

The advertised decentralization of power out of the hands of a few has, in fact, been a re-centralization of power into the hands of fewer | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Five Huge Economic Opportunities We’re on the Verge of Unlocking

The period following the Covid crisis could be one of the most prosperous in human history | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Scott Galloway’s 2022 Predictions

Reviewing the predictions I made for 2021 and making some new ones for the new year | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Super-Apps Are the Future

Why Jack Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO and renamed his payments company Block | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Super-Apps Are the Future

Why Jack Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO and renamed his payments company Block | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Fintech Is a Scam

$91.5b per year, doubling every year | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Why the Cost of Higher Education Has Spiraled Out of Control

The greatest assault on American middle-class prosperity is the relentless, four-decade-long inflation in higher education | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Why the Cost of Higher Education Has Spiraled Out of Control

The greatest assault on American middle-class prosperity is the relentless, four-decade-long inflation in higher education | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Understanding the Corporate Feeding Frenzy

Most high profile acquisitions don’t pay off. But the ones that do, pay off bigly | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

How Should We Rein in Facebook?

Let’s consider the tools we have available | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Four Retail IPOs

Taking a closer look at Warby Parker, Rent the Runway, Allbirds, and On | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

What Squid Game Reveals About Netflix’s Continued Streaming Dominance

The state of the streaming wars in late 2021 | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Imminent Collapse of Digital Advertising

Digital ad fraud could be a $150 billion business by 2025, which would make it the largest criminal enterprise after the drug trade | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Imminent Collapse of Digital Advertising

Digital ad fraud could be a $150 billion business by 2025, which would make it the largest criminal enterprise after the drug trade | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Can ESG Funds Really Fix Climate Change?

Firms would love to have us believe that society’s biggest problems can be fixed as our stock portfolios explode in value | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The $3.5 Trillion Pandemic Education Gap

Helping students catch up may be the pandemic’s most enduring challenge | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Why Zuckerberg Wants Us All in the ‘Metaverse’

For all its success, Facebook doesn’t have vertical distribution or much presence in the world of work | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Clubhouse's Early Hype Attracted Competition from Twitter and Facebook

The early hype around Clubhouse caused competitors to pounce on its live-audio turf | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

This Cold War is Not Like the Last One

China is financially connected to the U.S. in ways the USSR never was | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

End of the Line for Uber

Accounting tricks and tech gimmickry don’t matter when the coffers are empty. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?

Staying in a role builds valuable, company-specific domain knowledge. Leaving often results in a pay day. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Fintechs Are Zeroing in on Everything Big Banks Aren’t

A herd of unicorns is at the stable door, looking to trample Wells Fargo and Chase. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

What Happens When You Become an Overnight Millionaire?

Peter Rahal started RxBar out of his mom’s kitchen — then sold it for $600 million. Life on the other side of the entrepreneurial fantasy. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

To SPAC(e) and Beyond

How the billionaire class has taken midlife crises to a new level | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us

Why EV’s are false prophets in the fight for a better world | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

A Reluctant Optimist

Why Scott Galloway believes pessimists make better operators | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

What We Leave Behind

Much like an Etch A Sketch, Covid has presented an opportunity to envision our lives turned upside down, powder redistributed. | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The ‘MeWork Generation’ and the Two Metrics that Define Them

I’ve lost a lot of other people’s money. The most stressful times in my life have been when people believed in me and invested tens (if not hundreds) of millions in my company or idea, only to see… | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Case to Rebrand ‘Divorce’

Ending a partnership — personal or corporate — is generally seen as an admission of failure | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

Founders of Clubhouse, Spotify, Stripe, 42% of Unicorns Have One Thing in Common

Founders with a small exit in their first company were much more likely to build a unicorn in their next | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

The ‘Pyramid of Hate’ That Brought Down Basecamp

Basecamp bosses banned politics at work over a social justice diagram | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 2 years ago

What Might Bowie Have Done with Crypto?

How the $2 trillion crypto asset class taps into ‘scarcity credibility’ | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 3 years ago

WeWork Is Making Its Comeback

The notorious co-working giant is the beneficiary of the ongoing remote work revolution | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 3 years ago

Scott Galloway: This Is the Best Time to Start a Business

The economic flood gates are about to open wide | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 3 years ago