Conversation with Mathias Döpfner — Protecting Democracy Through Trade

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

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Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Axel Springer, joins Scott to discuss his new book, The Trade Trap: How To Stop Doing Business with Dictators, the current geopolitical landscape, and his take on the media ecosystem. Check out Mathias’ book here. Scott opens by telling us what he thinks about the Google antitrust case, and gets extra heated when he talks about how young people aren’t doing as well as their parents were at their age. Algebra of Happiness: What can you modulate? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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