Is Scott Friends with Tech CEOs?, Who Should Run in 2028, and Overcoming Rejection

You don't normally tune into a late night TV show expecting a rigorous debate about free speech, but somehow, this is the world we live in. This week on the Vergecast, we're talking about how FCC commissioner Brendan Carr has turned his agency into the speech police and why it's falling to people like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel to fight back. That plus the gadgets we are and maybe aren't getting from Apple and others chatbot wars. On the Vergecast, wherever you get podcasts. Welcome to Office Hours with Prop G. This is the part of the show where we answer your questions about business, big tech, entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind. If you'd like to submit a question for next time, you can send a voice recording to officehours@prop2media.com. Again, that's officehours@prop2media.com. Or post your question on the Scott Galloway subreddit, and we just might feature it in our next episode. First question. Our first question comes from b duran five on Instagram. They say, do you ever get heat for your views from biz heads? Not really. The few times I've gotten really severe pushback, it hasn't been where you'd expect it. I'd say the people I have had the most critical views on have been big tech executives. And generally speaking, they're very respectful and what they wanna do their response when you are critical of them is, hey, Scott, I'd love to meet the next time you're in town, let's have lunch. And I almost always say no. I don't wanna know them. I have no desire to understand how charming someone is who's figured out a business model to convince young people to start cutting themselves. I have no desire to hear someone's vision for the future of ride hailing. I find these people up close and personal, boring, and they don't drink, so I have no interest in getting to know them. I do get some pushback that says, well, you're talking openly about our firm. You have a responsibility to hear our side. No, I don't. I'm not a fucking journalist. I don't have any responsibility to hang out with a bunch of people to brighten up the room by leaving it. The times I've gotten pushback, kind of unusual. I wrote a blog post about three years ago talking about how corrupt higher education was and then saying that there were a lot of universities that were sort of in the kill zone or on a ventilator because they did not have the capital to survive a drop in enrollments. They were too dependent upon foreign students with weak grades, and their admissions rates were so high that it was clearly more like adult daycare. And as soon as they hit a bump in the road, they were gonna go out of business. And I called it the nitroglycerin cocktail of and I had a framework. It got written up in the Journal of Higher Education. I received …