Scott Galloway
Professor of marketing at NYU Stern and author of bestselling books including The Four and The Algebra of Wealth.
“If the Denver Broncos had the numbers one through 10 top draft choices every year, they'd be the best team in the world. And that's what America is. The best and brightest around the world all want to come here.”
Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway) · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026
Context
Swisher asked whether America has already lost a generation of scientific research as researchers leave after federal cuts. Galloway said he doesn't think so yet, and that it makes no sense to treat the world's top students badly.
Transcript
But Starlink shutting off. Imagine the CEO of Northrop Grumman decides, I don't like what's going on in the South China Sea, so I'm going to shut off the guidance systems for Ohio-class submarines. Would we put up with that shit?
…go to China. Speaking of that, they're going all over the place to Canada, to France, all over the place. Has America already, and I profiled a bunch of mRNA researchers who are going elsewhere because of these cuts. Has America already lost a generation of research to Europe, China, everywhere?
Look, I actually don't think so. My sense is: first off, what we're doing makes absolutely no sense. If the Denver Broncos had the numbers one through 10 top draft choices every year, they'd be the best team in the world. And that's what America is. The best and brightest around the world all want to come here. That's a dream come true. I work with at NYU. I work with just such the MBAs are typically the elite and the aimless. They're like smart, nice kids, but they don't know what they want to do, so they go back to business school. The PhD students, and I was one of them, and the PhD students are literally the best and brightest from around the world. These are kids who found a way to get out of…
So I think it's
the supply problem. I think the people here are still pretty wed. See, I think in the
sciences, it's nothing. These cuts have been devastating. In the sciences, it's quite significant. But we really have to turn that around. And another opportunity for the Democrats, if they do it, and good Republicans, the same thing, like ones who are going to stand up.
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