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Scott Galloway

Scott Galloway

NYU Stern / Prof G Media
Photo: Editorial (Option A policy, Jun 10, 2026) - owner-supplied
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Said 2026-06-12 · resolves ~Dec 12, 2026
“over the next 6 months, the stock would get cut in half” (SpaceX)
Said May 25, 2026 · resolves May 25, 2027
“I think a safe bet is that within 6 to 12 months it’s sub a trillion dollars.” (SpaceX market capitalization, said pre-IPO; also called it “a $600 billion” company and said “this thing does not price at $2 trillion”)

Where they stand

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BearThe AI Trade 2026-07-20
Reacting to OpenAI's brutal week (Apple lawsuit, Atlas browser shutdown, Fiji Simo exit, Oracle downgrade citing OpenAI). He argues bubbles pop in order: apps disappoint, infrastructure overbuilds, capital markets close: it is massively overspent here. And these valuations are gonna come down dramatically @10:57; the real risk isn't that OpenAI loses, is that nobody wins enough to justify these valuations @10:35. He still calls OpenAI and Anthropic amazing companies even down 80 percent @28:13.
“This does feel like Q4, 99. And then March of 2000 is now in plain sight.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · Prof G Markets ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.7% · 25,508 → 26,456 · as of 2026-08-05
BearThe AI IPOs 2026-07-20
His formal prediction of the episode, teased in the cold open at 0:25 (duplicate of this in-context occurrence). Full mechanism @35:01: OpenAI acquires Sierra and installs Brett Taylor as their CEO and kicks Altman up to chairman; timeframe restated @35:11: I would say it's six months. You know, it might be 12 but Sam Altman is on the green mile. Repeated as his prediction in the week-ahead segment @64:06.
“We're gonna have a new CEO at OpenAI within the next six months.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · Prof G Markets ↗
BearThe AI Trade 2026-07-20
He calls it AI dumping from China @17:51: free Chinese models went from less than a third of all traffic in late 2025 to about two thirds recently, subsidized, on cheaper power and chips. Ed supports with pricing data @25:15: GPT 5.6 at $45 per million output tokens vs DeepSeek at 87 cents. Scott still thinks US premium frontier models can compete at the high end (@27:19).
“What the Chinese automobile industry did to Detroit in about three decades, it feels like Beijing is doing to USA AI frontier models in about three months.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · Prof G Markets ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.7% · 25,508 → 26,456 · as of 2026-08-05
BearThe S&P 500 2026-07-20
Rebutting a montage of investors touting the broadening-out theme. He calls AI-adjacent buying second order concentration: that's not diversification, it's second order concentration @44:32, and If the AI trade sneezes, we're not catching a cold, we're getting pneumonia @44:53. Ed supports with data: top 10 stocks are 40 percent of the S&P, over half of Russell 2000 returns from AI-related names, 75 percent of EM-ex-China returns from TSMC, Samsung, SK Hynix.
“The market is not broadening. It's just finding new ways to buy Nvidia.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · Prof G Markets ↗
S&P 500 since this was said: +4.0% · 7,443 → 7,742 · as of 2026-08-05
BearStock Picks 2026-07-20
Positioning talk: I'm selling down my big tech @52:10; he stays invested (I'm always in the market @49:28) but is de-risking: I'm trying to set myself up for a 20 to 30% decline, not 120% decline, which is what I experienced in the dot com @63:04, and When this collapse, which is coming, it's probably not a collapse, a drawdown of AI happens. There's nowhere to hide @62:53. He admits possible sour grapes for passing on Anthropic at a $20 billion valuation @52:21.
“As a general theme, if I could go long a basket of stocks, would be GLP-1. And if I could go short a basket, it's AI.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · Prof G Markets ↗
BullHousing 2026-07-20
He backs the thesis with his own allocation: I have invested about half my net worth in buying really high-end homes in four of those five @53:22. Rationale is that income inequality will run unabated, concentrating wealth in the top 0.1 percent, plus psychic income and no daily scorecard vs public stocks. He concedes it partly violates his own diversification rule.
“I think anyone worth over $50 million is gonna have at least one home in one of five places, Dubai, London, Palm Beach, New York, or Aspen.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · Prof G Markets ↗
BearThe AI Trade leaning · 2026-07-18
Companies not getting the ROI they anticipated.
“a lot of CFOs are gonna say play time is over. I need you to either justify the return on investment in our token consumption or to reduce it.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · tech-ai @AI spend
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.7% · 25,520 → 26,456 · as of 2026-08-05
BearThe AI Trade leaning · 2026-07-18
Rebuts the 'top-3 companies never go bankrupt' point: drawdowns are the risk.
“Amazon lost 92% of its value, so did Cisco. They didn't go bankrupt, but they lost 92.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · tech-ai @AI mega-caps
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.7% · 25,520 → 26,456 · as of 2026-08-05
BearThe AI Trade leaning · 2026-07-18
Front-end players admit they overestimated demand generation.
“the only people creating demand right now are entropic and open AI”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · tech-ai @AI demand
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.7% · 25,520 → 26,456 · as of 2026-08-05
BearThe AI Trade 2026-07-09
The distinction he draws:
“But I'm a bear around AI stocks right now. I'm bullish on AI technology.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · The Prof G Pod ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +1.0% · 26,207 → 26,456 · as of 2026-08-05
BearThe State Buys In 2026-07-06
“The biggest bailout in corporate history was about to happen… the bailout of Nadella, Altman, Dario Amodei, and it would be dressed up as investment or growth. It's not, it's a bailout”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · Prof G Markets ↗
…Silicon Valley subsidizing those losses , maybe now just the taxpayers will. And maybe that's the plan. And maybe that's a good idea, because that's what the banks did in 2008. And it didn't work for some of them, but it worked out for most of them. And so you have to think, maybe they see this collapsing. And that's why they go to the government. But either way, both of these pieces of news in the same week, that's very, very bearish, in my view, and seems to indicate that this is a growing bubble that is nearing a point of maybe not collapse, but certainly massive course correction. OpenAI, I predicted this six months ago , that the biggest bailout in corporate history was about to happen, and it was gonna be the bailout of Nadella, Altman, Dario Amadei, and it would be dressed up as investment or growth. It's not, it's a bailout. If the government were to take a 5% stake in OpenAI, great, they're gonna favor OpenAI. They're going to over-regulate their competitors and under-regulate OpenAI. They're going to provide them with protection money and direct access to the White House. It's not even socialism, it's cronyism. It's like, when things are really good, we wanna capture all the gains ourselves, but when things are bad, we wanna socialize…From: this video · 6 claims mined from it
BearThe State Buys In 2026-07-06
“It's like Sam Altman is trying to make the company as systemic as possible, such that eventually when things go wrong, we have no choice but to bail them out.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · YouTube ↗
…OpenAI is essentially like a zombie child that was formed by all of the big tech companies that have become systemic to the stock market and it's like Sam Altman is trying to make the company as systemic as possible such that eventually when things go wrong we have no choice but to bail them out. It seems like this is almost all part of the design that he wants to be too big to fail. He wants for the U.S. government to own a 5% stake in it so that if anything ever goes wrong why wouldn't the U.S. government figure out a way to bail them out? Today's number, $26.2 million. That's how much the citizens of Atlanta spent on OnlyFans last year, the most of any U.S. city. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Why…From: this video · 6 claims mined from it
BearThe AI Trade 2026-07-06
“The way to describe this historically is this is the fiber overbuild of 1999.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · YouTube ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +1.3% · 26,121 → 26,456 · as of 2026-08-05
…of momentum from OpenAI to Anthropic, we've seen another incredible flipp ening, but this is one that is geographic. And that is free Chinese models went from 30% of AI traffic to 60% in six months. The dominant AI models are now imports. I mean, the thing that rocked the automobile industry was a product called the Honda Civic. That was sort of a slow moving train wreck over 10 years. This has been 10 weeks, GPU rates are collapsing. The hyperscalers built $300 billion of infrastructure for customers who are switching to deep seek for free. The way to describe this historically is this is the fiber overbuild of 1999. The Chinese model problem is like another problem on top of all of their other problems because I mean, as you pointed out, a lot of these large companies are now switching. I can go through a list of some of them who have switched to Chinese models. Coinbase is now using Kimi, Cursor is using Kimi, Shopify is using Kwen, Airbnb is using Kwen, Siemens is using DeepSeek, Microsoft is now apparently testing DeepSeek. And the reason they're all doing this is because the Chinese models are way cheaper. And we talked about why is that the case? Some say it's because Chinese have cheaper energy and that might be part…From: this video · 6 claims mined from it
BearThe State Buys In 2026-07-06
“OpenAI made $13 billion in revenue last year. Okay, great. But they spent $34 billion. So their operating loss was $21 billion.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · YouTube ↗
…And when we look at our estimates, those two companies alone account for between 60-80% of the AI revenues for Amazon, for Google, and for Microsoft. And according to the information, those two companies alone make up half of the entire revenue backlog of the hyperscalers, i. e. the big tech companies. Meaning that the back-end infrastructure business only works if OpenAI and Anthropic continue to pay all this money and keep this whole thing afloat, which then begs the question, do you think they'll keep actually paying? And this is where the financials are so important, which were leaked by Ed Zitt rain, who we had on. And we learned that OpenAI made $13 billion in revenue last year. Okay, great. But they spent $34 billion. So their operating loss was $21 billion . Anthropic, we don't know the financials , but we at Prof.G. have done some estimates. We know that they made $4.5 billion in revenue last year. Based on our estimates, they probably spent around $15.5 billion. That's an $11 billion operating loss. Meaning the front-end AI business only works if the VCs continue to subsidize it to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars . And by the way, if the hyperscalers continue to subsidize it. But if they stop doing that, then suddenly this business of building front-end AI doesn't work anymore, which means the business…From: this video · 6 claims mined from it
BearThe AI Trade 2026-07-06
“this is a growing bubble that is nearing a point of maybe not collapse, but certainly massive course correction.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · YouTube ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +1.3% · 26,121 → 26,456 · as of 2026-08-05
…bailout. And that is, according to the Financial Times, they've discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government. And so it seems as though instead of Silicon Valley subsidizing those losses , maybe now just the taxpayers will. And maybe that's the plan. And maybe that's a good idea, because that's what the banks did in 2008. And it didn't work for some of them, but it worked out for most of them. And so you have to think, maybe they see this collapsing. And that's why they go to the government. But either way, both of these pieces of news in the same week, that's very, very bearish, in my view, and seems to indicate that this is a growing bubble that is nearing a point of maybe not collapse, but certainly massive course correction. OpenAI, I predicted this six months ago , that the biggest bailout in corporate history was about to happen, and it was gonna be the bailout of Nadella, Altman, Dario Amadei, and it would be dressed up as investment or growth. It's not, it's a bailout. If the government were to take a 5% stake in OpenAI, great, they're gonna favor OpenAI. They're going to over-regulate their competitors and under-regulate OpenAI. They're going to provide them with protection money and direct access to…From: this video · 6 claims mined from it
BullEurope 2026-07-06
On new Fed chair Warsh stripping out forward guidance:
“People have basically given up on Europe. Investors have basically given up on Europe and that's when you buy.”
Scott Galloway · NYU Stern / Prof G Media · YouTube ↗
…I tried to find shares was that the word I didn't learn as a younger man and the reason I 've been rich three times, which means I 've gone broke twice. The reason I've gone broke twice is that I didn't understand the power of diversification. And it's easy to become concentrated without even knowing it. You know, ProfG Media is essentially an American company talking about American tech. We get a lot of advertisers from AI. I am over invested in technology stocks . I am so concentrated and non-divested accidentally, "Nick, well, I'll buy some S&P funds." Well, okay, 40% of the S&P is in 10 companies now, all related to AI. So one of the reasons I like this company as a personal investment is I want to invest more in Europe. People have basically given up on Europe. Investors have basically given up on Europe and that's when you buy. And two, I want diversification out of anything American and tech related because winter is coming as Daenerys and every other person from Game of Thrones said. And then also, the labor arbitrage. What do you think a talented senior product manager costs in San Francisco versus Milan? Especially after AI. Exactly. It's not like it's child labor. I would imagine that in Milan, if you 're making 120,000 euros, actually Milan 's gone a lot in price, but I would imagine for 120, 000 euros in Milan, you can probably…From: this video · 6 claims mined from it

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