Five Questions with.... NYU's Scott Galloway

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent brings on Scott Galloway, NYU professor and author of The Four, to answer five big tech questions in 2018. 1. Is the (ad-based) Internet broken? (2:00), 2. Should Facebook be broken up? (3:40), How has Amazon managed to avoid the backlash? (6:00), 4. Why have advertisers not flexed their muscles (9:40), and 5. Is this any different from the robber barons or other eras where a handful of companies dominated industries? (13:45).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.0	What is it all about?
0:04.0	Facebook does not put in any safeguards, ignores, delay and obfuscation around real issues leading to the weaponization of their platform and the subterfuge of our democracy.
0:18.0	Welcome to your bonus episode of Danny in the Valley.
0:23.3	This week we have brought in Scott Galloway, a professor at NYU Business School.
0:28.7	He is the author of The Four, which is a just stinging critique of the big four tech companies, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
0:36.8	And of course, the prof is a listener
0:39.5	favorite. Many of you who have been listening since last season will recognize Professor
0:43.2	Galloway. We interviewed him about six months ago about all the dodgy things big tech was up to.
0:49.9	And he had lots of strong opinions and listeners seem to really enjoy hearing what he had to say.
0:55.2	So six months on, given that we are now in the eye of the tech lash storm with Zuckerberg
1:01.6	and Congress and Amazon being slammed almost daily by the president of the United States
1:07.6	and GDPR nearly being upon us, I thought, what better time to bring the professor back to talk about how he sees the state
1:16.7	of big tech in 2018, why he thinks each of the big four should be broken up, and whether
1:23.7	there is any chance in hell that that might actually happen.
1:28.0	Before we get to the show, just two quick production notes.
1:31.2	One is on structure to provide a bit of focus to our chat.
1:33.9	We went with the five questions gimmick, which I think worked pretty well.
1:38.8	Hopefully you agree.
1:40.8	And then the other note is on sound.
1:42.2	If it's a bit different than normal, that's because we did this over the interweb.
1:46.8	Professor Galloway is based in New York.
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