The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

by Scott Galloway
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

by Scott Galloway

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Overview

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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. 

For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway.

Instead of buying the myths these compa­nies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone chal­lenge them?

In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world’s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can’t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career.

Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780735213654
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/03/2017
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 924,245
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Scott Galloway is a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to second-year MBA students. A serial entre­preneur, he has founded nine firms, including L2, Red Envelope, and Prophet. In 2012, he was named one of the “World’s 50 Best Busi­ness School Professors” by Poets & Quants. His weekly YouTube series, “Winners and Losers,” has generated tens of millions of views. This is his first book.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Four: Who are these companies and why write about them? 1

Chapter 2 Amazon: How Amazon became the most disruptive firm in the largest economy 13

Chapter 3 Apple: Tech goes luxury 60

Chapter 4 Facebook: Love is key to longevity-and great advertising 90

Chapter 5 Google: Our modern-day god 124

Chapter 6 Lie to Me: The Four and funny business 152

Chapter 7 Business and the Body: All businesses appeal to one of three organs 163

Chapter 8 The T Algorithm: What it takes to get to a trillion 176

Chapter 9 The Fifth Horseman?: Who will be next? 195

Chapter 10 The Four and You: Follow your talent, not your passion 218

Chapter 11 Yes, and Now What?: Where are the Four taking us? 250

Acknowledgments 281

Notes 283

Illustration Credits 309

Index 313

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