L2inc video above published on Nov 1, 2018, on Scott Galloway's Digital Winners & Losers. Winners: 1. Amazon private label furniture brands Ravenna, Rivet, Stone & Beam; 2. United Kingdom (government) for 2% tax on tech giants' top-line revenue.
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| 55 Percent of Online Shoppers Start their Product Searches on Amazon--Recode.net, Sep 2016. |
Scott Galloway on Fox Business:
Fox Business video above published Oct 25, 2018: NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway on concerns over the impact of Facebook and its management team.
Galloway says in the video:
Sheryl Sandberg is "one of the most dangerous, damaging executives in the history of business."
“You’ve heard the term lipstick on a pig. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are lipstick on cancer.”
“If these individuals [Zuckerberg and Sandberg] weren't so likable they would have been out a long time ago and District Attorneys would be talking about bringing charges of criminal negligence. This management team will go down in history as one of the most dangerous and damaging management teams in the United States.”Provocative or Incendiary?
Galloway speaks highly of Facebook and its management in this Oct 2015 video below @4:32:
Oct 19, 2015: Scott Galloway of NYU Stern School of Business talks with Betty Liu about why Yahoo should be sold, the e-commerce strength of Amazon, and the juggernaut that is Facebook. He appeared on "Bloomberg Markets."
Transcript of first video above:
00:00 a loser Furniture brands as Amazon has
00:05 launched a new private label brand its
00:07 third this week Ravenna home the day of
00:10 the announcement e-commerce home goods
00:12 company Wayfair saw its stock shed six
00:15 percent of its value wait there's more
00:17 pain to come Amazon launched two
00:19 furniture brands last year Rivet and
00:21 Stone & Beam all three feature the
00:23 Amazon Prime badge meaning free shipping
00:26 and free returns I'm launching my own
00:29 furniture brand called cialis home
00:31 living the more you use it the older it
00:33 gets the harder it feels okay so it's
00:38 the beginning of the end for Wayfair
00:39 perhaps with more than half of consumer
00:42 searches for products starting on Amazon
00:43 and global online furniture sales expected
00:46 to grow at an average rate of 12
00:48 percent over the next four years this
00:50 might be another great move for Amazon
00:53 who sits on top of every piece of data
00:55 outsources the crappy parts of the
00:58 e-commerce echo system and then moves in
01:00 on the white meat of e-commerce the high
01:02 margin high-volume sector a winner the
01:06 United Kingdom whose government unveiled
01:07 plans this week to introduce a two
01:09 percent tax on top-line revenue
01:11 registered by big tech estimates place
01:14 the potential gains from the tax at four
01:17 hundred million pounds or about five
01:19 hundred and ten million u.s. dollars is
01:21 this enough the average corporate tax
01:23 rate in the United Kingdom is 19% close
01:26 to the recently reduced US federal
01:28 corporate income tax rate of 21%
01:30 however in 2017 amazon reported paying
01:33 two point three percent in tax to the
01:35 british government while in america the
01:37 seattle giant paid effectively zero
01:39 federal tax in 2017 what happens when
01:43 the most successful companies in the
01:46 world pay less than their fair share of
01:48 taxes simple everyone else pays more the
01:51 UK tax is a step in the right direction
01:53 but a small dent compared to their
01:55 impact on the economy and wages over the
01:58 years this is simple complexity or a
02:00 complex tax code favors the wealthy
02:03 favors the organizations with large
02:06 sg&a budgets and the UK has said ok big
02:09 tech your tax lawyers are smarter than
02:11 our tax authorities and begin taxing them
02:13 on the top line. A loser the United
02:16 States -- pipe bombs people being murdered
02:18 in their place of worship it feels that
02:20 we are the Frog that wakes up and
02:22 realizes it's in boiling water what is
02:25 each of our roles and what has become an
02:28 incredibly coarse dialogue in our nation
02:31 I go on CNBC CNN and Bloomberg and all
02:34 the other business television shows and
02:35 now go on Fox as I wanted to get out of
02:38 my bubble
02:38 however most recently I was on with
02:40 Stuart Varney of Varney & Co I think
02:42 Stuart is a fantastic host and in
02:45 general like the people a lot at Fox
02:46 what was disturbing was my segment was
02:50 then posted on YouTube and the people
02:52 here did an analysis of the top comments
02:55 so some of those results and they are
02:57 very very disturbing approximately half
03:00 of the results had some sort of
03:02 misogynistic or anti-semitic tone we
03:05 analyzed these top segments and found
03:07 that some of the comments were
03:08 especially vile concerning Ms. Sandberg
03:11 have I crossed the line from being
03:13 provocative to incendiary is the
03:16 question that I'm asking myself while
03:18 these comments don't seem to happen on
03:20 CNBC or CNN am I going into a room
03:23 knee-deep in gasoline and passing out
03:26 lighters to arsonists or is it just that
03:29 bad actors have decided to weaponize Fox
03:32 or put greater efforts into weaponizing
03:33 Fox versus the other networks I don't
03:36 know but it's an honest question I have
03:38 decided that I am going to tone it down
03:41 that this is the new me and I'm going to
03:44 be a little less incendiary
03:47 [Music]