Scott Galloway has accumulated an impressive net worth over the course of his 30+ year career as a startup founder, brand consultant, professor, author, and podcast host.
Best known these days as a high-profile pundit in the corporate world, Galloway has gained a reputation as an expert on what he calls the “Big Four” tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Meta — even predicting some of Amazon’s biggest corporate moves before they occurred.
Galloway spends his days recording and releasing episodes for his two podcasts — the Prof G Show and Pivot — and teaching marketing and management to grad students at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He also guests periodically on other shows and podcasts, discussing personal finance, investing, business, tech, and fitness with other talking heads.
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Known for his brash but sometimes vulnerable personality, Galloway has become a media figure of some notoriety since correctly predicting Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 on the “Recode Decode” podcast about a month before the acquisition was announced. Since then, he’s built a large (and largely male) audience by delivering hot takes on business, finance, and politics punctuated occasionally with crass humor.
In some ways, he’s like a less-polarizing Joe Rogan with a business bent. The New York Times has likened him to “Howard Stern for aspiring M.B.A.s,” while Fast Company dubbed him the “progressive Jordan Peterson.”
Here’s what he’s worth in 2025 and how he made his millions.
Scott Galloway appeared at the 2025 SXSW Conference to record a live episode of “Prof G Markets,” the investing-focused spinoff of his “Prof G Pod” podcast.
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What is Scott Galloway’s net worth in 2025?
Scott Galloway’s exact net worth is somewhat unclear. Some sources, including Celebrity Net Worth and Yahoo Finance, estimate Galloway’s net worth at $40 million. Others, like Stagbite, estimate his wealth much higher at $100 million.
In a 2024 interview with Colin and Samir (popular YouTubers/podcasters whose channel focuses on interviewing other creators), Galloway mentioned that he never invests more than 3% of his assets in any single venture, sharing an anecdote about how he invested $5 million into a medical communication startup and lost it all.
Assuming Galloway was following his own rule (i.e., that $5 million represented 3% or less of Galloway’s assets at the time), his total assets would have been worth at least $166 million, although he did not discuss his liabilities (debts) in this interview.
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Scott Galloway’s income: How much does he make from his podcasts?
Galloway hosts two main podcasts — Pivot and the Prof G Pod (which has two spinoffs).
The Prof G Pod, Galloway’s eponymous podcast, was launched in 2020. Prof G Markets, a Wall Street-focused spinoff, debuted in 2024, and Raging Moderates, a political side show he cohosts with Jessica Tarlov, launched in early 2025.
Together, Galloway says he expects his Prof G podcast portfolio to generate around $10 million in revenue for 2025. And with the low overhead that comes with podcasting — and just eight employees to pay — much of that sum will be profit.
According to Galloway, Pivot, the twice-weekly podcast show he has cohosted with Kara Swisher since 2018, generates even higher revenue (i.e., more than $10 million annually), although he didn’t mention a specific number.
Pivot reportedly has even lower overhead costs than his Prof G suite, although some of the revenue it generates goes to Vox, which distributes the show and sells its ad space.
How much does Scott Galloway make from public speaking?
Galloway has long been known for his public speaking prowess and ability to create compelling presentations.
One such presentation, entitled “Zero or One: Winners & Losers in a Digital Age,” discussed which companies he thought were the most likely to succeed in the years to come. Back in 2014 when Galloway first shared it at a conference in New York, it made such waves in the business world that a reported 50 or so hedge fund managers reached out to Galloway for a copy to help them decide which stocks to buy and which to short in the months and years to follow.
These days, Galloway remains an in-demand speaker-for-hire. According to talent agency AAE Speakers, his fee for virtual events ranges from $50,000 to $100,000, while it costs between $100k and $200k to book him for an in-person speaking engagement. And that’s before per diem and reimbursement for travel and lodging.
Galloway offers a suite of topic-specific speeches with titles like “AI Optimist” and “The Algebra of Happiness,” but he can also be booked for a general Q&A chat with a small group, business, or organization — essentially an informal consulting session.
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How did Scott Galloway make his money? His career explained
While much of Galloway’s income these days comes from his podcast businesses, public speaking gigs, and guest appearances, this wasn’t always the case.
After graduating from UCLA in 1987, Galloway spent the first year or two of his post-collegiate career working as an analyst for Morgan Stanley before beginning a long phase of entrepreneurship.
Prophet, Galloway’s first startup, was a consultancy firm that worked with businesses on their branding and marketing strategies. Throughout the 90s, the firm helped companies — including household names like Apple, Levi, and Williams-Sonoma — navigate the emergence of the digital age and craft compelling brand identities. He sold this business in 2002 for $33 million, pocketing between $2 million and $3 million, according to JoinHampton.com.
As the dot-com bubble was beginning to grow, Galloway launched a business called RedEnvelope that sold personalized gifts online, capitalizing on the nascent eCommerce industry’s relative lack of crowding at the time. In 2010, Galloway created L2, a research company that analyzes the digital competence of brands within their industry.
While at the helm of L2, Galloway worked with major fashion powerhouses like LVMH, Coach, and Chanel on their digital strategies. L2 was purchased by Gartner for a reported $155 million in 2017.
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During the aughts, Galloway also spent much of his time as an activist investor, buying into and flipping struggling businesses. In 2019, he created Section4, an education startup, securing tens of millions in seed funding.
By this time, he had become a well-known media figure, and he began publishing books, including his debut effort, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which cemented him as one of America’s forefront voices on big tech.
In 2018, Galloway entered the podcast world, cohosting Pivot with Kara Swisher, the tech journalist to whom he had made his Whole Foods acquisition prediction the year before. Just two years later, he began releasing the Prof G Pod, building upon his existing audience with a second successful show that would eventually birth two spinoffs.
Podcasting, teaching, guest appearances, and speaking engagements now make up the bulk of Galloway’s day-to-day work.
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