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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Anthropic’s IPO, wealth-tax backlash, and Congress’ chaos after midterms
- Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss Anthropic’s planned IPO pricing and funding structure, including major investments by large tech companies, and debate what it signals for AI capital markets.
- Scott Galloway argues Anthropic’s approach could drain available capital for other AI players and says any credible investigation-related story could threaten the IPO.
- They review OpenAI’s investor-shared financial results as described in the episode, emphasizing rapid revenue growth alongside escalating operating losses and the question of sustainability.
- They cover California’s defeated billionaire wealth tax ballot measure and contrast it with Scott Galloway’s preferred alternative: progressive federal tax reform, an alternative minimum tax, and changes to how borrowing against stock and state exit are taxed.
- They round up post-midterm congressional news—Mississippi’s Democratic Senate win, the stalled Hegseth impeachment effort, the Epstein files push, and Jim Jordan’s election as House Republican minority leader—then close with predictions about Nvidia’s stock and broader political intrigue.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasScott Galloway says Anthropic’s IPO strategy is to “empty the punch bowl” of AI capital.
He argued Anthropic is prioritizing raising a very large amount of capital even if it means accepting a lower valuation, and that this could reduce how much capital remains available for other AI “pioneer model” companies.
Scott Galloway expects IPO pricing to be set to manufacture a day-one “pop,” and he’d sell immediately.
He said IPO bookrunners will push for an offering price that yields a strong first-day rise because a “broken IPO” would create damaging headlines; he described a tactic of seeking allocation and selling on the first trade.
OpenAI’s growth is described as “unbelievable,” but Scott Galloway questions the sustainability of its losses.
He pointed to OpenAI’s rapid revenue growth alongside very large operating losses, framing the key issue as whether those losses can persist and whether Anthropic’s IPO could make it harder for OpenAI to access capital.
Scott Galloway argues against a California wealth tax and favors minimum-tax and loophole-closing reforms.
Scott Galloway said wealth taxes “don’t work,” arguing they can reduce receipts and spur relocation, and instead proposed alternative minimum taxes and closing loopholes related to borrowing against stock and leaving a state after building wealth there.
The Mississippi Senate upset is attributed to overwhelming Black women turnout and voting margins.
Kara Swisher highlighted multiple post-midterm congressional developments, while Scott Galloway emphasized the turnout and near-unanimous support among Black women voters in Mississippi as decisive for the Democratic win.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesIf a story comes out that anybody and any organization with any credibility is, is investigating something at Anthropic, that IPO gets shelved.
— Scott Galloway
The best investment in the world, or not a best, but a great investment, is just to get allocation the night before it prices, and then sell it on the first trade.
— Scott Galloway
This is the problem with many, I think, progressive policies, and that is they're more focused on tickling the sensors of middle class democratic voters than actually enacting policies that increase the treasury such that we can fund the programs that we claim to be fond of for lower income people.
— Scott Galloway
You can't run a na- a nation based on the kindness of recently divorced billionaire women. There has to be structural fixes
— Scott Galloway
There is no Jesus Christ. There is no one person that can build a $5 trillion company. Greatness is in the agency of others.
— Scott Galloway
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Business professor and author; co-host of Pivot with Kara Swisher, known for commentary on tech, markets, and politics.
Kara Swisher
hostTech journalist and author; co-host of Pivot with Scott Galloway, known for interviewing and analysis of Silicon Valley and U.S. politics.
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