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‘L.A. Is a Much-Better-Weather Version of Detroit Right Now’

So says Scott Galloway, the business school professor and podcaster as he unloads on Hollywood in decline—why its unions “have their heads up their ass,” the urgent A.I. threat (“Try to shut them down”), and an entertainment industry he sees as “arrogant:” “You’re subject to the same economics as the rest of us, folks,” as he puts it.

SAG-AFTRA strike
Galloway was the recipient of hate mail from Hollywood people last summer after he criticized the rationale behind the dual Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
June 21, 2024

A conversation with Scott Galloway can feel like a rapid-fire intervention—he alone knows what’s wrong and how to fix it. That’s sometimes a bit simplistic, but it’s what makes the NYU business school professor and popular podcaster (Pivot, The Prof G Show) so interesting to talk to—and why he got so much hate mail from Hollywood people last summer after he criticized the rationale behind the dual Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes.