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Scott Galloway
Personal blog · profgalloway.combusinesseconomics
Scott Galloway writes No Mercy / No Malice, a personal blog at profgalloway.com about business and economics. Since 2019, 157 different Hacker News readers have linked it 352 times, most often “WeWTF, Part Deux”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 15 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott Galloway's posts on WeWork, tech business models, higher education and the economy. Commenters value the calls he got right and find the writing fun to read, though a few challenge his claims.
- Recommended for · 15 comments
- Called WeWork's fallout accurately; a great read, 'really good', 'just as fun to read', 'highly recommend'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- WeWTF, Part Deux10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2019-09-20
- When Reality Becomes Fiction7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-10-25
- OyoMFG6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-10
- PalanThiel: The Uncola6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-09-18
- Web36 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-14
- A Few(er) Good Men5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-10-02
- The Algebra of Wealth5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-02-13
- WeWTF4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-08-17
- WeWTF (2019)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-18
- Unicorn Feces4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-12
What Hacker News says?
The "nobody expects anything from Harvard" statement might be a bit too strong. I've seen people say that Harvard has a responsibility to do more social good with it's massive endowment. Here's one example [1]: > Endowments over $1 billion should be taxed if the university doesn’t grow freshman seats at 1.5x the rate of population growth. Harvard, MIT, and Yale have combined endowments (approximately $85 billion) gr…
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on “It’s Time to Build”Submitted WeWTF as a story · 840 points
HN discussionThe best one, of course, is Bret Devereaux's acoup ( https://acoup.blog ). It's the only one I follow with any regularity. It's a weekly blog focussing on history and sometimes on its interaction with popular media, like GoT or EU4. Scott Galloway is also a great read. He writes about the digital economy and tech. ( https://www.profgalloway.com/ ) I also enjoy reading Martin Tournoij's blog whenever he updates it (…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted WeWTF, Part Deux as a story · 354 points
HN discussionI like this quote about entertainment: "Two weeks ago, at the Code Conference, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel claimed “the total addressable market of content is infinite.” Netflix is spending $17 billion a year to validate his thesis. So far, they’re both right." https://www.profgalloway.com/stream-on-2/
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on “Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid”Submitted Yogababble as a story · 244 points
HN discussionBy the way, confounding income with wealth is as bad as confounding market cap of a company and GDP of a country, e.g. GDP of India vs Apple's market cap [0]. [0]: https://www.profgalloway.com/scarcity-cred/
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on “How People Get Rich Now”Submitted Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down as a story · 143 points
HN discussionI can just imagine Prof Galloway taking victory laps and talking about how the big dog is awesome ! https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf-part-deux https://twitter.com/JordanBitterman/status/11765494016213483...
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on “WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO”Submitted Unremarkables as a story · 100 points
HN discussionThere is a lot of drama unfolding. “We” planned to IPO, its last evaluation was $47 billion. After outsiders reported irregularities its evaluation plummeted quickly to $10 billion and the IPO is postponed until October, but probably shelved for much longer. We’s CEO knew the bubble was about to burst and sold his shares pre-IPO for $700 million. I recommend: https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf (from Aug 16) https://…
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on “WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO”Submitted Addiction Economy as a story · 88 points
HN discussionhttps://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf-part-deux It was published on Friday and so far he is knocking it out of the park with these predictions.
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on “WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO”Submitted Higher Ed: Enough Already as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI wouldn't give that much worship to Galloway it's not like he is always right or my guess even close to that (and nobody is). For example this post circa 2017 about the bubble. I can't tell you how many people have not called the bubble since the last bubble correctly. Galloway is one of them: https://www.profgalloway.com/every-seven-years Market was at 21,600 (very roughly) on the approx. date of that post and now…
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on “WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO”Submitted PalanThiel: The Uncola as a story · 68 points
HN discussionI'm just impressed by how well the fallout has been predicted by Scott Galloway[0] and Matt Levine. Has been an incredible learning experience for me on the unicorn class in general. Looking forward to unicorn report for 2019 [1]. [0] https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf-part-deux [1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/03/20/the-unicorn-ipo-r...
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on “WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO”Submitted Notes on Being a Man as a story · 63 points
HN discussionDiamond branding taps into a much more fundamental obsession with scarcity, which manufactured objects cannot provide. Scott Galloway explores this really well in a recent post comparing NFTs to long-standing art world practices: "Scarcity has always been a function of bits, not atoms." [1] I wonder if synthetic diamonds that were organized into specifically limited editions would hold more value... [1] https://www.…
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on “Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever”Submitted Capitalists or Cronyists? as a story · 54 points
HN discussionHe's written his prescription here: Twitter needs to move from an ad model to a subscription model, with subscription fees for accounts of a certain size. The platform would still be free for the majority of users, but accounts over 200K followers (or even 50K followers) should pay for the audience that Twitter provides them with. This would lead to better financial results because recurring revenue is reliable, pro…
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on “Twitter confirms Twitter Blue”Submitted Divorce as a story · 43 points
HN discussion> Is it so simple? The highest marginal tax rate in the US is 50.3% (37% federal + 13.3% state in California). The highest marginal tax rate in Norway is 47.4%. Sure. It’s not simple. But you’re missing a lot of the picture too. People with high wealth and ownership can leverage massive loopholes (like taking a loan with stock as collateral) which means they pay very little effective tax on their “income”: https://w…
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on “How the U.S. became a science superpower”Submitted Unicorn Feces as a story · 40 points
HN discussionThere was a scathing Scott Galloway piece on OYO in January: https://www.profgalloway.com/oyomfg "WeWork was an opportunistic infection highlighting the poor judgment of SoftBank. Oyo is the beginning of the end for Vision 1 as its brand moves from incompetent to malefactor. (And he's referenced it several times in other pieces.) Edited to add the quote from the linked OYO piece.
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on “SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb”Submitted FckdEx as a story · 39 points
HN discussionEverything being equal,isn't what Amazon did before anyone else? Burning astonishing amount of cash and create a massive monopoly. Prof Galloway, gave very interesting thoughts on similar approach followed by WeWork https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf
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on “Never Hertz to Ask”Submitted TikTok: Trojan Stallion as a story · 37 points
HN discussionEverything being equal,isn't what Amazon did before anyone else? Burning astonishing amount of cash and create a massive monopoly. Prof Galloway, gave very interesting thoughts: https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf
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on “Never Hertz to Ask”Submitted Web3 as a story · 36 points
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