Scott Galloway, how broken is the American dream?

Scott Galloway is an entrepreneur, professor, bestselling author, investor, and podcast host. Over the past decades, he has founded several companies, taught brand strategy, and become one of the most prominent public commentators on technology, business, and society. Now he was live on stage of the never-ending podcast, on the sidelines of the OMR Festival in Hamburg. Scott Galloway grew up in California as the son of two immigrants and was raised largely by his mother, a secretary, after his father left the family. He describes his childhood as »remarkably unremarkable«: there was little money, but also a society that, in his telling, still gave ordinary children a real chance to build an extraordinary life. At school and university, Galloway was not a prodigy. He says he had average grades, initially failed to get into UCLA, appealed the decision, was admitted as a »native son of California«, and graduated with a GPA of 2.27. After a short and, by his own account, uneasy stint at Morgan Stanley, he went to business school, discovered brand strategy, and founded the consulting firm Prophet — the first of several companies that made him wealthy and, as he openly recounts, twice br…