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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
Summary of everything you probably already know.
Lack of new insight.
Main idea unclear.
Waste of time.
Lack of new insight.
Main idea unclear.
Waste of time.
informative
reflective
funny
informative
slow-paced
Engaging and interesting but the humor might not be for everyone.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Some people find Scott Galloway too acerbic to sit with for the length of a book, but I'll take his style over the mummy-dry cadre of Clayton Christiansen-type business writers any day. Galloway's take on big tech is thoughtful and pragmatic - he's not claiming Silicon Valley is ushering in the age of Utopia, but neither is he forecasting the Armageddon. Mostly he's dissecting how we got to where we are, and what might happen next.
Overall, he's delivering here what you'd get from a handful of entertaining lectures in a tech Master's or MBA program - not full case studies, not the serendipitous classmate interactions you'd have in the lecture hall, and definitely not the valuable credential college students are looking for (and by Galloway's account, absolutely need.)
Go pay for the NYU credits if you want to - but commuting with this audiobook for a few hours is a cheaper place to start.
Overall, he's delivering here what you'd get from a handful of entertaining lectures in a tech Master's or MBA program - not full case studies, not the serendipitous classmate interactions you'd have in the lecture hall, and definitely not the valuable credential college students are looking for (and by Galloway's account, absolutely need.)
Go pay for the NYU credits if you want to - but commuting with this audiobook for a few hours is a cheaper place to start.
Short sections provide mostly surface level, although sometimes interesting tidbits of info.
This was surprisingly superficial analysis given the authors position and the fact he had an entire book to expound on his analysis. More like a series of long articles.
Generally accurate analysis but anyone who has devoted much time to thinking about these company's will have reached the same conclusions without being a Professor of Marketing in NYU.
Generally accurate analysis but anyone who has devoted much time to thinking about these company's will have reached the same conclusions without being a Professor of Marketing in NYU.
No interesting information. The first half of the book says that the big companies have big stores, big plans, and big money. I was hoping for more technical analysis but all that's here is broad financial report summaries and off-handed opinionated derogatory one-liners.
By the end it became repetitive and weird life advice-y, but the majority of the book was interesting to read about. Thought Galloway's language was at times crude and unnecessary but I just tried to push that out of my mind while reading.