And Then There Were Four

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🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The past decade has seen the biggest disruption in American business in a hundred years — and its only just the beginning. Scott Galloway, author of the new book “The Four,” joins me to explain how Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, grew into such massive companies. He lays out which of them is the least likely to survive (ahem, Facebook), and why those that do (ahem, Amazon) may end up in a war with the U.S. governments over regulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So my guest today Scott Galloway, I have to warn you, speaks really, really quickly and drops numbers and statistics like it's some sort of drive-by shooting.
0:12.0	He is a professor at New York University Stern School of
0:16.0	Business. He served on the board of directors of Eddie Bauer, the New York Times, Gateway
0:20.6	Computer, Urban Outfitters. He used to teach at Berkeley's Half School of Business and he has a new
0:25.5	book out called The Four, which is about The Four Horseman, perfect for Halloween Week.
0:30.4	And it is the story of the hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
0:36.0	And he tells stories about why these companies have become so big and so great and why they're so terrifying about the future.
0:43.0	So I'd like to welcome Scott to the program today.
0:46.0	So thank you for joining us today.
0:49.0	Thanks for having me.
0:50.0	So you just, did you fly in?
0:52.0	Yeah, I'm on a tour of the West Coast during a loop.
0:54.0	I'm in Bentonville tomorrow and then...
0:57.0	Bentonville.
0:58.0	Yes.
0:59.0	What's in Bentonville? Well, there's only one thing in Bentonville.
1:01.0	You tomorrow? And Walmart. Oh, got it. in the hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
1:12.9	I'm going to start with a just a basic question here.
1:16.4	Who's the most evil out of the four of these companies?
1:18.9	Oh my gosh.
1:20.4	The most evil.
1:21.8	The most, the one that we, if you were to write the screenplay for the movie of the company that
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