The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Oct 15, 2026 · 51 min · 22 segments
We’re a Signal Finalist! Vote for us here. Josh Tyrangiel, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins Scott Galloway to discuss the rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos—and what their ambitions in…
Josh TyrangielGuest
Scott GallowayHost
Sue BirdHost
One, as a private company, it has access to cheaper capital than NASA, right? But the thing that really stands out to me is they can take more risks.
NASA blows up a rocket, and it's just bad, and people lose trust in government.
It's,
well, you know, failure is—we learn more from failure— I see the same thing happening, and I'm curious if you see, if you connect the same dots I do with Anduril and the privatization of the military-industrial complex.
We have regulatory capture encouraging us to go to war, build more expensive products that...
And now we have B-2 bombers that cost a billion dollars and unfortunately have to have a handsome young man with a family back at home.
And that is, I think if we've learned anything over the last 50 years in warfare, it's not who's willing to spend the most, but who's willing to lose the most.
I see us outsourcing at some point for really smart reasons, the military industrial complex.
And then basically we have Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey controlling, controlling space in our Navy.
And I actually think that there are lessons to be learned from space before we do this with the military.
And so most of that war is fought on tablets by people who are trained specifically in drone warfare.
One, as a private company, it has access to cheaper capital than NASA, right? But the thing that really stands out to me is they can take more risks.
NASA blows up a rocket, and it's just bad, and people lose trust in government.
It's,
well, you know, failure is—we learn more from failure— I see the same thing happening, and I'm curious if you see, if you connect the same dots I do with Anduril and the privatization of the military-industrial complex.
We have regulatory capture encouraging us to go to war, build more expensive products that...
And now we have B-2 bombers that cost a billion dollars and unfortunately have to have a handsome young man with a family back at home.
And that is, I think if we've learned anything over the last 50 years in warfare, it's not who's willing to spend the most, but who's willing to lose the most.
I see us outsourcing at some point for really smart reasons, the military industrial complex.
And then basically we have Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey controlling, controlling space in our Navy.
And I actually think that there are lessons to be learned from space before we do this with the military.
And so most of that war is fought on tablets by people who are trained specifically in drone warfare.
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