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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 593: Scott Galloway Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University Stern School of Business teaching brand strategy and digital marketing. He has started nine firms and his weekly YouTube series has generated millions of views. Scott is also author of “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.”

The topic is his book The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook
  • Ecosystem of Silicon Valley
  • Zero sum nature of Amazon
  • Jeff Bezos
  • Tim Cook
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Political views of Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook
  • Strong leadership qualities
  • Monopolies

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

0:10.9

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Covel.

0:24.0

Not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.4

Before I jump into my guest today, a quick reminder,

0:40.0

my newest book, Trend Following,

0:53.0

the fifth edition, out now, 220,000 plus words. This is a massive redo, massive rewrite, massive new content.

0:58.4

Heck, the last edition was only around 110,000 words. This is just crazy expansion. Also, the audiobook version of trend following is out now. 34 hours. Get in your car,

1:09.2

start in California, drive to New York. I will be on the whole time.

1:14.7

And also, for those of you that are looking to go to the next level, by flagship product,

1:20.5

easily found, trendfowing.com forward slash products. You not only help the cause of this podcast, but you help yourself, because I guarantee

1:31.6

you that I will give severe insights on how to conquer the markets. My guest today, Scott Galloway,

1:40.4

he is a professor at New York University Stern School of Business. He teaches brand strategy

1:45.8

and digital marketing. Scott is a serial entrepreneur. He has founded nine firms. His weekly

1:52.4

YouTube series, Winners and Losers has generated tens of millions of views. Our discussion today

1:58.7

is his first book, which I really, really like.

2:03.3

The Four, or How to Build a Trillion Dollar Company, the Four would be Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple.

2:14.0

You might think that you know everything there is to know about the rise of these four companies,

2:20.0

the lore, the myth, etc.

2:22.2

But there is a unique story to each of these companies.

2:25.4

Scott breaks it down to a very granular level.

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