Following his graduation from the
University of California, Los Angeles in 1987, Galloway worked as a
fixed income analyst at
Morgan Stanley. In 1992, he founded
Prophet, a brand and marketing consultancy firm. In 1999, he was elected to the 1999 class of the
World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders of Tomorrow," which recognizes 100 individuals under the age of 40 whose accomplishments have had an impact on a global level. In 2010, Galloway founded the digital intelligence firm
L2 Inc, which was acquired in March 2017 by
Gartner for $155 million, and the now defunct Firebrand Partners, founded in 2005, an
activist hedge fund that invested over $1 billion in U.S. consumer and media companies. In 2019, he founded the executive-education startup section (formerly Section 4), which raised in
Series A funding led by
General Catalyst in 2021, bringing total funding to about . Galloway has served on the board of directors of
Eddie Bauer,
The New York Times Company,
Gateway Computer,
Urban Outfitters, and UC Berkeley's
Haas School of Business. He is also known for his public presentations and
TED-style talks, called
Winners & Losers, in which he presented L2's Digital IQ Index results, ranking over global brands across numerous dimensions including
e-commerce, social media, and
digital marketing. Galloway teaches brand management and digital marketing to second-year MBA students. In September 2018,
Recode and the
Vox Media launched Pivot, a weekly news commentary podcast co-hosted by
Kara Swisher and Galloway. In February 2020, Galloway launched
The Prof G Show, a weekly podcast answering listener questions on business, money, and technology. On September 28, 2021, CNN announced that Galloway would be a host on its
CNN+ streaming platform, but the platform went off the air shortly after launching. In 2022, Galloway's weekly newsletter
No Mercy/No Malice won the
Webby Award and Webby's People's Voice Award for best business, news and technology websites and mobile sites. == Positions ==