George Hahn

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Humorist, urbanist, satirist, sartorialist, minimalist, soloist, bicyclist, mid-century modernist on no one’s to-do list.

Where to Find Them

George Hahn hosts The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway , hosts and writes Prof G Media , writes George Hahn , hosts and writes https://www.profgmedia.com and writes Katie Phang . They have also been a guest on Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway) (6 times) .

Recently: “No Mercy / No Malice: Each Other” on The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway (October 2026); “The Week: Elon’s $366 Million of Influence, Washington’s Corruption Problem, and the Skill AI Can’t Replace” on Prof G Media (October 2026); “The Week: Elon’s $366 Million of Influence, Washington’s Corruption Problem, and the Skill AI Can’t Replace” on The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway (October 2026); “No Mercy / No Malice: Asymmetry” on The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway (October 2026); “The Week: A Market With Mixed Signals, the Price of Surveillance, and a Collective Feeling of Abandonment” on Prof G Media (October 2026); “The Week: A Market With Mixed Signals, the Price of Surveillance, and a Collective Feeling of Abandonment” on Prof G Media (October 2026).

What They Said

“Valuing life is a hallmark of a great society. But because we've combined that with regulatory capture by defense firms, the U.S. has built the most expensive glass jaw in history.” — George Hahn, The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

George Hahn reading Scott Galloway's essay "Asymmetry". The essay sets America's low tolerance for casualties against adversaries willing to lose soldiers, and argues the drone wars in Ukraine and Iran are a chance to cut defense spending while building a more lethal force.

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2026-10-10 Permalink → Listen →
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I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Malice:, No Malice:. The silver lining of the wars in Ukraine and Iran. The opportunity to reduce America's defense budget by 50%. Asymmetry, as read by George Hahn.

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…of shareholder value. But sending a B-2 bomber and its two-person crew on a mission likely to result in their deaths is akin to playing baseball with a Fabergé egg. Put another way, every president is capable of greenlighting a trillion-dollar weapon system, but no president wants to be LBJ, who presided over casualty counts exceeding 500 killed per week during the height of the Vietnam War. Valuing life is a hallmark of a great society. But because we've combined that with regulatory capture by defense firms, the U.S. has built the most expensive glass jaw in history. The silver lining of these current conflicts? They present America with a historic opportunity to build a more lethal fighting force while cutting defense spending by a trillion dollars. Embracing asymmetrical warfare with political will should result in a super weapon: a robust balance sheet.

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Life is so rich.

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Your heart can tell you a lot about your health. Apple Watch Series 12 measures your heart rate every five seconds with the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable. So your vitals app, not with heart rate variability, can tell you when something is off. And your readiness score can let you…

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Running a business shouldn't feel like surviving a software group project. One app for accounting, another for inventory, another for sales, and somehow, none of them talk to each other. That's where Odo comes in, an all-in-one business management software that brings every part of your business…

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“Asymmetry gives an army a lead, not a moat. David wins one round with a new slingshot, but in the second, Goliath has a factory in Yalabuga, manufacturing thousands of slingshots at a lower unit cost.” — George Hahn, The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

George Hahn reading Scott Galloway's No Mercy / No Malice essay "Asymmetry". The passage follows the observation that Ukraine innovates with drones and Russia copies them months later at scale, which Galloway compares to the second-mover advantage in business.

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2026-10-10 Permalink → Listen →
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway Around 07:39 into the episode
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I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Malice:, No Malice:. The silver lining of the wars in Ukraine and Iran. The opportunity to reduce America's defense budget by 50%. Asymmetry, as read by George Hahn.

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…told me. Everything the Ukrainians do, the Russians are able to do a few months later, but at scale. In business, this is called the second mover advantage. Netscape commercialized the web browser. Microsoft scaled it. Diners Club introduced the credit card. Visa turned it into a financial empire. MySpace pioneered social networking. Facebook perfected it. And Apple is the ultimate second mouse. Asymmetry gives an army a lead, not a moat. David wins one round with a new slingshot, but in the second, Goliath has a factory in Yalabuga, manufacturing thousands of slingshots at a lower unit cost. In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned that the influence of America's growing military-industrial complex endangered our liberties and democracy. He also highlighted the connection between debt and national security, although few Americans remember that part of the speech. As we peer into society's future, we, you and I and our government, must avoid the…

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Life is so rich.

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Your heart can tell you a lot about your health. Apple Watch Series 12 measures your heart rate every five seconds with the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable. So your vitals app, not with heart rate variability, can tell you when something is off. And your readiness score can let you…

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Running a business shouldn't feel like surviving a software group project. One app for accounting, another for inventory, another for sales, and somehow, none of them talk to each other. That's where Odo comes in, an all-in-one business management software that brings every part of your business…

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