Scott Galloway says that technological CEOs present “Domino cowardice”

• Scott Galloway, host of Professor G Pod, torn the CEOs of technology during his SXSW conference on Saturday.
• Galloway said technological leaders played “cowardly dominoes”, each according to the others.
• He said he refused to normalize the actions taken by Elon Musk.

Since Donald Trump’s victory, technological CEOs have honored The inauguration of the president, Jeff Bezos revised the Washington Post editorial section, and the CEO of X Linda Yaccarino would have supported one of the world The largest advertising groups to increase spending on X. by Elon Musk.

What are these apparently disparate events in common?

Scott Galloway, Marketing Professor of Nyu Stern and host of Professor G -Pod, said that business leaders – in particular the CEO of technology – participate with complacency in the “slow road to American fascism”.

During his SXSW conference on Saturday in Austin, Galloway said that technology leaders enormously influence society and that their “character counts”.

But so far, Galloway has said: “We have seen an extraordinary type of what I call” Lowardice Domino “”, displaying an image as a slide from eminent technology chiefs represented as dominoes, notably Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Musk, Tim Cook and Yaccarino.

Washington Post, Microsoft, Openai, Meta, Alphabet and Apple spokesperson did not immediately respond to a comment request.

Galloway said that examples of “cowardly dominoes” included business leaders sending his co-host on the pivot of the technological podcast, Kara Swisher, whom they “hate being in the inauguration, but I do it for shareholders”.

He continued: “And this effectively encourages the CEO of X to then demand it from IPG advertising on his platform; if not, she will force her boss to block the merger. This leads to one of the richest men in the world, who has one of the most important newspapers, to say:” We are no longer going to talk about opinion “. There is a kind of fascist domino according to the other.”

Galloway seemed to refer to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal which said that Yaccarino and its associates had prompted Intepublic Group, a large advertising company, to advertise X. Pressure comes while IPG is looking for an agreement Sell ​​itself to its competitor Omnicom. The agreement could require the regulatory approval of the Trump administration, with which Musk works in close collaboration.

Musk and an X spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

Galloway took a moment to emerge Musk and his recent gesture to the inauguration of Trump, which some interpreted as a fascist salute.

“I had a musk loop that was nazi salvation, and I thought:” I refuse to normalize these bullshit “,” he said. “Think about what money has done to us.”