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0:01:50 Welcome to the PropG Pods Office Hours. This is the part of the show where we answer your
0:01:54 questions about business, big tech, entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind.
0:01:55 Hey, PropG.
0:01:56 Hey, Scott and Team.
0:01:57 Hey, Scott.
0:01:58 Hi, PropG.
0:01:59 Hey, PropG.
0:02:00 Hey, PropG.
0:02:01 Hi, Professor G.
0:02:04 If you’d like to submit a question, please email a voice recording to officehours@propgmedia.com.
0:02:09 Again, that’s officehours@propgmedia.com. So with that, first question.
0:02:18 Hi, PropG. This is Carrie from New York City, and I am 54 years old. Thank you so much for
0:02:24 all the years of insights that I’ve gotten from your podcast. I’m calling today to ask
0:02:30 if you have any commentary about the latest drama that’s unfolding with Pfizer’s investor
0:02:36 activists and its former executives who were originally trying to help the activists and
0:02:43 seems like are now not helping them. I don’t imagine that this is normal, but I don’t have
0:02:49 any experience, so your insights would greatly help. I’m an investor advisor, and so I wanted
0:02:55 to find out if you have any advice for me, and also I’m greatly worried for my friends
0:03:00 who work there. Do you have any advice for them? Thank you so much, and I would love
0:03:03 to hear your prediction. Bye.
0:03:08 So thanks very much for the question, Carrie, and I think it’s nice that you would take
0:03:12 the time to ask a question because you’re worried about your friend. We covered this
0:03:16 on PropG Markets a couple of weeks ago, but as a quick refresher, activist investor,
0:03:21 Starboard Capital has taken a $1 billion stake in Pfizer. The fund reportedly reached out
0:03:26 to two former Pfizer executives, the former CEO, Ian Reid, and former CFO, Frank D’Amelio,
0:03:31 to support its agenda. However, things got a little twisted when Reid and D’Amalio unexpectedly
0:03:37 changed their stance and decided to back the current Pfizer CEO. There’s real drama there.
0:03:41 The drama escalated when Borla learned about Starboard’s plan by accident. He received
0:03:46 an incomplete email from D’Amelio, which included a representative from Starboard,
0:03:50 cc’d to the email. That’s how Borla found out that Starboard was preparing to announce
0:03:54 its investment publicly at a conference. In terms of the numbers, Pfizer stock has been
0:03:59 cut in half since its record high in 2021, probably largely on the back of expectation
0:04:04 around their vaccines. It’s flat this year, though, it rose 3% on the news of Starboard
0:04:10 taking an activist investor stake. The stock has cratered as demand for its COVID vaccine
0:04:14 and packs of the treatment have fallen faster than expected. By the way, I love both those
0:04:19 things. Pfizer’s revenue fell 10% and that income dropping almost 60% on the first half.
0:04:24 The company has announced cost cutting campaigns that are expected to save $5.5 billion by
0:04:30 2027. Effectively, what’s happened is they benefited from the sugar high of vaccines,
0:04:35 and that’s still probably a great long-term business, but the world wants GLP-1. Over
0:04:41 the past three years, Pfizer and Moderna have declined 22% and 81% respectively, while Novinordisk
0:04:47 and Eli Lilly have sort of 163% and 305% and investors are sort of, “What have you done
0:04:52 for me lately?” and “Lately needs to be GLP-1.” Pfizer tried to get into the GLP-1 industry
0:04:57 and stubbed its toe, and quite frankly, it didn’t work. It estimated the pill could have
0:05:02 been a $10 billion product with a potential $90 billion market, and instead, it just doesn’t
0:05:04 look like it’s worked.
0:05:09 Starboard has taken very seriously. They took a stake in Salesforce in 2022, urged the company
0:05:13 to cut costs. The stock has done really well since then. They did the same thing at Starbucks,
0:05:21 so look, they will probably give the CEO cloud cover to make some cost cuts. An activist
0:05:24 probably at Starbucks thinks, “Okay, if the guy gets his act together, the stock goes
0:05:28 up, we go away, leave him alone, and if it continues to go down or sideways, we get some
0:05:34 seats on the board and come in and make some changes ourselves.” But I doubt that happens.
0:05:37 Pfizer’s a fantastic company. I would imagine they have good leadership. I don’t know much
0:05:44 about this individual. I would bet he’s going to make some cost cuts and that the stock
0:05:48 probably recovers. That’s not financial advice, but again, thanks for the question.
0:05:53 Question number two. Hey, Scott, this is Reid from San Diego. I took your advice from an
0:05:58 Office Hours episode around a year ago and started making TikToks on my interests in
0:06:03 finance and economics. It’s been a fantastic read of outlet for me, and the reception has
0:06:09 been beyond my wildest expectations, so thank you for the inspiration. My question has to
0:06:15 do with how young professionals should balance a social media presence with professionalism.
0:06:22 I often make comparisons to relationships, substances, and sex in my videos. Can you
0:06:29 tell I’m a fan of yours? But it seems to appeal to my demo of 18 to 26 year old men in finance.
0:06:35 While not super explicit, the jokes are definitely unprofessional. I know you go back and forth
0:06:39 on the dilemma of being family friendly, so if you were young today, how would you weigh
0:06:44 the benefits and risks of making content and sharing your honest thoughts and jokes online?
0:06:45 Thanks for all you do.
0:06:49 This is a really interesting question. I get questions a lot from people saying I admire
0:06:54 how provocative you are, and I even notice sometimes when people on my podcast are more
0:06:57 profane than they are elsewhere because I’m profane and they think I give some cloud cover
0:07:03 to be more profane. What I would say is I have the luxury and the privilege of being
0:07:06 economically secure and having people who love me unconditionally, not that you don’t
0:07:11 have people who love you unconditionally, but I can be profane, I can be vulgar, quite
0:07:15 frankly, I can fuck up. And on a risk-adjusted basis, being profane or vulgar in any professional
0:07:21 situation on a risk-adjusted basis is just a bad idea because you might say something
0:07:26 really inarticulate or really inelegant or just plain fucking stupid and it can really
0:07:31 hurt your career. I’m at a point right now, I actually have a strategic objective around
0:07:36 my profanity and vulgarity. Well, two, one, it’s authentic. I am generally a profane
0:07:41 and vulgar person and I think more people are than I like to admit. And two, I consider
0:07:44 myself a proud progressive and one of the things I do not like about the Democratic
0:07:51 Party is that we have become fucking humorless. And that is, everything’s sensitive, all the
0:07:56 sensitivity training, anything you say could offend people. Well, guess what? Part of getting
0:08:01 to a point of equality is having the confidence and the affection for each other to make fun
0:08:05 of our differences. One of the things I love about my partnership with Cara Swisher who’s
0:08:11 actually coming over for coffee right now is that I make fun of her sexuality and she
0:08:15 makes fun of mine. I make fun of her height and she makes fun of my hair or absence thereup
0:08:19 because we like each other, we’re confident around each other. And I just don’t like an
0:08:25 environment where we’ve become so starched and so humorless that we are just too sensitive
0:08:29 walking on age shells around us. I think that kind of gave rise to Trump where he just came
0:08:35 in and started being offensive and everyone was sort of ready for it. You need to be thoughtful
0:08:39 at a young age about being profane and vulgar. And as it relates to social media, I know
0:08:44 that several big firms, when they’re hiring someone, check their social media. I can’t
0:08:48 get over the people who have jobs and are constantly posting images of themselves and
0:08:52 mykonos and abuse. So it’s like, if I was your boss, I hate to say this, I’d be like,
0:08:57 do you make any time for work? So I think you have to be very thoughtful about the image
0:09:03 you put out there because that is your interview before the interview. Now, if you’re balancing
0:09:07 that with being a creator, I think being authentic is one thing. But I think as a younger person,
0:09:11 you want to match, you really want to be more about substance and half and domain expertise
0:09:19 and creativity and keep air on the side of being less profane and less vulgar than you
0:09:24 would naturally because the reality is, I don’t want to say I can’t be canceled, but
0:09:28 if the advertisers flee from me or Vox finally gets fed up and kicks me to the curb or I
0:09:35 say something and people take it out of context and just run with it and I lose, like I said,
0:09:41 advertisers or my distribution agreements or some employees quit, I’m going to be fine.
0:09:46 If that had happened to me 20 years ago, I would not have been fine. So before you have
0:09:51 economic security, and I hate to say this, you have to be measured. And I don’t think
0:09:55 that’s a good thing. I’m not saying that’s the way the world should be, but that is the
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0:13:17 Welcome back question number three. Prof. G. This is Glenn from New Orleans. My girlfriend
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0:13:35 only been dating for a few months and we both love exploring cities. Do you have any recommendations
0:13:40 for a new-ish couple with a good-sized expense budget to make the most of our time together?
0:13:45 We’re staying in Notting Hill and I’ve already put Granger and Co. restaurant on our list.
0:13:49 Thanks so much for providing so much entertainment and insight across all your podcasts.
0:13:56 Oh, Glenn, that’s just so wonderful. And first off, this sounds passe. But go to AI, type
0:14:00 in everything about you and what you want, what you just said to me, and say please arrange
0:14:06 a seven-day itinerary for us. A bunch of that will not be relevant for you, but a bunch
0:14:09 of it will and it’s fun. I’m not good at this because I’m a creature of habit, but I’ll
0:14:17 tell you a few things. I would go see that new ABBA kind of hologram 3D thing. I think
0:14:22 that’s really cool. I would, oh, absolutely, a must. You got to go see a Premier League
0:14:28 game. I hope you’re in town for one, but I don’t care if it’s Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspurs
0:14:36 or my team Arsenal. It is just so much fun. I would walk around Soho. In terms of pubs,
0:14:41 I would specifically go to this one pub actually owned by Guy Ritchie called Lore of the Land
0:14:46 for their Sunday roast. I took my son who just turned 17 for his first kind of legal
0:14:51 beer and I like to do it every week. I just think it was so nice. And my son, I get these
0:14:54 monosyllabic answers from him, but when he has a beer, this probably sounds weird. He
0:15:00 kind of opens up, which I love. I would go do a great tea service at a fancy hotel like
0:15:07 the Barclay or the Connet. I think that is a ton of fun or very British, if you will.
0:15:11 I would do a night out at Soho Farmhouse in the Cotswolds. When I moved to New York, people
0:15:15 said we have beautiful beaches here. I never believe them because I thought, well, I’m
0:15:19 from California and the beaches in the Hamptons are beautiful. And people told me all the
0:15:22 countryside, the British countryside is beautiful. I didn’t believe them. I went out there.
0:15:28 It’s incredible. And Soho Farmhouse is just spectacular. And also along the same lines,
0:15:33 Maison Estelle has a sister property out in the Cotswolds called Estelle Manor, which
0:15:37 is just like Downton Abbey, rehabbed with a bunch of money by people with better tastes
0:15:44 than the Abbeys or whoever they were that operated Downton Abbey. Anyways, great restaurants.
0:15:48 Also just pick a neighborhood and just absolutely just walk around. I think it’s fun to go to
0:15:53 selfridges and have dim sum there. I love those high end malls and my kids for whatever
0:15:58 reason love. I think Westfield’s is kind of, I might tell you to go to malls. Maybe you
0:16:02 don’t have kids. Maybe you don’t need to do this. But anyways, Glenn from New Orleans,
0:16:06 you’re going to have a fantastic time. Sorry, it wasn’t more helpful.
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0:01:50 Welcome to the PropG Pods Office Hours. This is the part of the show where we answer your
0:01:54 questions about business, big tech, entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind.
0:01:55 Hey, PropG.
0:01:56 Hey, Scott and Team.
0:01:57 Hey, Scott.
0:01:58 Hi, PropG.
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0:02:04 If you’d like to submit a question, please email a voice recording to officehours@propgmedia.com.
0:02:09 Again, that’s officehours@propgmedia.com. So with that, first question.
0:02:18 Hi, PropG. This is Carrie from New York City, and I am 54 years old. Thank you so much for
0:02:24 all the years of insights that I’ve gotten from your podcast. I’m calling today to ask
0:02:30 if you have any commentary about the latest drama that’s unfolding with Pfizer’s investor
0:02:36 activists and its former executives who were originally trying to help the activists and
0:02:43 seems like are now not helping them. I don’t imagine that this is normal, but I don’t have
0:02:49 any experience, so your insights would greatly help. I’m an investor advisor, and so I wanted
0:02:55 to find out if you have any advice for me, and also I’m greatly worried for my friends
0:03:00 who work there. Do you have any advice for them? Thank you so much, and I would love
0:03:03 to hear your prediction. Bye.
0:03:08 So thanks very much for the question, Carrie, and I think it’s nice that you would take
0:03:12 the time to ask a question because you’re worried about your friend. We covered this
0:03:16 on PropG Markets a couple of weeks ago, but as a quick refresher, activist investor,
0:03:21 Starboard Capital has taken a $1 billion stake in Pfizer. The fund reportedly reached out
0:03:26 to two former Pfizer executives, the former CEO, Ian Reid, and former CFO, Frank D’Amelio,
0:03:31 to support its agenda. However, things got a little twisted when Reid and D’Amalio unexpectedly
0:03:37 changed their stance and decided to back the current Pfizer CEO. There’s real drama there.
0:03:41 The drama escalated when Borla learned about Starboard’s plan by accident. He received
0:03:46 an incomplete email from D’Amelio, which included a representative from Starboard,
0:03:50 cc’d to the email. That’s how Borla found out that Starboard was preparing to announce
0:03:54 its investment publicly at a conference. In terms of the numbers, Pfizer stock has been
0:03:59 cut in half since its record high in 2021, probably largely on the back of expectation
0:04:04 around their vaccines. It’s flat this year, though, it rose 3% on the news of Starboard
0:04:10 taking an activist investor stake. The stock has cratered as demand for its COVID vaccine
0:04:14 and packs of the treatment have fallen faster than expected. By the way, I love both those
0:04:19 things. Pfizer’s revenue fell 10% and that income dropping almost 60% on the first half.
0:04:24 The company has announced cost cutting campaigns that are expected to save $5.5 billion by
0:04:30 2027. Effectively, what’s happened is they benefited from the sugar high of vaccines,
0:04:35 and that’s still probably a great long-term business, but the world wants GLP-1. Over
0:04:41 the past three years, Pfizer and Moderna have declined 22% and 81% respectively, while Novinordisk
0:04:47 and Eli Lilly have sort of 163% and 305% and investors are sort of, “What have you done
0:04:52 for me lately?” and “Lately needs to be GLP-1.” Pfizer tried to get into the GLP-1 industry
0:04:57 and stubbed its toe, and quite frankly, it didn’t work. It estimated the pill could have
0:05:02 been a $10 billion product with a potential $90 billion market, and instead, it just doesn’t
0:05:04 look like it’s worked.
0:05:09 Starboard has taken very seriously. They took a stake in Salesforce in 2022, urged the company
0:05:13 to cut costs. The stock has done really well since then. They did the same thing at Starbucks,
0:05:21 so look, they will probably give the CEO cloud cover to make some cost cuts. An activist
0:05:24 probably at Starbucks thinks, “Okay, if the guy gets his act together, the stock goes
0:05:28 up, we go away, leave him alone, and if it continues to go down or sideways, we get some
0:05:34 seats on the board and come in and make some changes ourselves.” But I doubt that happens.
0:05:37 Pfizer’s a fantastic company. I would imagine they have good leadership. I don’t know much
0:05:44 about this individual. I would bet he’s going to make some cost cuts and that the stock
0:05:48 probably recovers. That’s not financial advice, but again, thanks for the question.
0:05:53 Question number two. Hey, Scott, this is Reid from San Diego. I took your advice from an
0:05:58 Office Hours episode around a year ago and started making TikToks on my interests in
0:06:03 finance and economics. It’s been a fantastic read of outlet for me, and the reception has
0:06:09 been beyond my wildest expectations, so thank you for the inspiration. My question has to
0:06:15 do with how young professionals should balance a social media presence with professionalism.
0:06:22 I often make comparisons to relationships, substances, and sex in my videos. Can you
0:06:29 tell I’m a fan of yours? But it seems to appeal to my demo of 18 to 26 year old men in finance.
0:06:35 While not super explicit, the jokes are definitely unprofessional. I know you go back and forth
0:06:39 on the dilemma of being family friendly, so if you were young today, how would you weigh
0:06:44 the benefits and risks of making content and sharing your honest thoughts and jokes online?
0:06:45 Thanks for all you do.
0:06:49 This is a really interesting question. I get questions a lot from people saying I admire
0:06:54 how provocative you are, and I even notice sometimes when people on my podcast are more
0:06:57 profane than they are elsewhere because I’m profane and they think I give some cloud cover
0:07:03 to be more profane. What I would say is I have the luxury and the privilege of being
0:07:06 economically secure and having people who love me unconditionally, not that you don’t
0:07:11 have people who love you unconditionally, but I can be profane, I can be vulgar, quite
0:07:15 frankly, I can fuck up. And on a risk-adjusted basis, being profane or vulgar in any professional
0:07:21 situation on a risk-adjusted basis is just a bad idea because you might say something
0:07:26 really inarticulate or really inelegant or just plain fucking stupid and it can really
0:07:31 hurt your career. I’m at a point right now, I actually have a strategic objective around
0:07:36 my profanity and vulgarity. Well, two, one, it’s authentic. I am generally a profane
0:07:41 and vulgar person and I think more people are than I like to admit. And two, I consider
0:07:44 myself a proud progressive and one of the things I do not like about the Democratic
0:07:51 Party is that we have become fucking humorless. And that is, everything’s sensitive, all the
0:07:56 sensitivity training, anything you say could offend people. Well, guess what? Part of getting
0:08:01 to a point of equality is having the confidence and the affection for each other to make fun
0:08:05 of our differences. One of the things I love about my partnership with Cara Swisher who’s
0:08:11 actually coming over for coffee right now is that I make fun of her sexuality and she
0:08:15 makes fun of mine. I make fun of her height and she makes fun of my hair or absence thereup
0:08:19 because we like each other, we’re confident around each other. And I just don’t like an
0:08:25 environment where we’ve become so starched and so humorless that we are just too sensitive
0:08:29 walking on age shells around us. I think that kind of gave rise to Trump where he just came
0:08:35 in and started being offensive and everyone was sort of ready for it. You need to be thoughtful
0:08:39 at a young age about being profane and vulgar. And as it relates to social media, I know
0:08:44 that several big firms, when they’re hiring someone, check their social media. I can’t
0:08:48 get over the people who have jobs and are constantly posting images of themselves and
0:08:52 mykonos and abuse. So it’s like, if I was your boss, I hate to say this, I’d be like,
0:08:57 do you make any time for work? So I think you have to be very thoughtful about the image
0:09:03 you put out there because that is your interview before the interview. Now, if you’re balancing
0:09:07 that with being a creator, I think being authentic is one thing. But I think as a younger person,
0:09:11 you want to match, you really want to be more about substance and half and domain expertise
0:09:19 and creativity and keep air on the side of being less profane and less vulgar than you
0:09:24 would naturally because the reality is, I don’t want to say I can’t be canceled, but
0:09:28 if the advertisers flee from me or Vox finally gets fed up and kicks me to the curb or I
0:09:35 say something and people take it out of context and just run with it and I lose, like I said,
0:09:41 advertisers or my distribution agreements or some employees quit, I’m going to be fine.
0:09:46 If that had happened to me 20 years ago, I would not have been fine. So before you have
0:09:51 economic security, and I hate to say this, you have to be measured. And I don’t think
0:09:55 that’s a good thing. I’m not saying that’s the way the world should be, but that is the
0:10:03 way the world is. We have one quick break before our final question. Stay with us.
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0:13:17 Welcome back question number three. Prof. G. This is Glenn from New Orleans. My girlfriend
0:13:21 and I are late 30s, early 40s, and are set to take a week-long vacation to London in
0:13:26 mid-November. We’re both divorced and we both have young children. We’re leaving behind
0:13:30 to go on this trip. We’re really looking forward to this opportunity together as we’ve
0:13:35 only been dating for a few months and we both love exploring cities. Do you have any recommendations
0:13:40 for a new-ish couple with a good-sized expense budget to make the most of our time together?
0:13:45 We’re staying in Notting Hill and I’ve already put Granger and Co. restaurant on our list.
0:13:49 Thanks so much for providing so much entertainment and insight across all your podcasts.
0:13:56 Oh, Glenn, that’s just so wonderful. And first off, this sounds passe. But go to AI, type
0:14:00 in everything about you and what you want, what you just said to me, and say please arrange
0:14:06 a seven-day itinerary for us. A bunch of that will not be relevant for you, but a bunch
0:14:09 of it will and it’s fun. I’m not good at this because I’m a creature of habit, but I’ll
0:14:17 tell you a few things. I would go see that new ABBA kind of hologram 3D thing. I think
0:14:22 that’s really cool. I would, oh, absolutely, a must. You got to go see a Premier League
0:14:28 game. I hope you’re in town for one, but I don’t care if it’s Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspurs
0:14:36 or my team Arsenal. It is just so much fun. I would walk around Soho. In terms of pubs,
0:14:41 I would specifically go to this one pub actually owned by Guy Ritchie called Lore of the Land
0:14:46 for their Sunday roast. I took my son who just turned 17 for his first kind of legal
0:14:51 beer and I like to do it every week. I just think it was so nice. And my son, I get these
0:14:54 monosyllabic answers from him, but when he has a beer, this probably sounds weird. He
0:15:00 kind of opens up, which I love. I would go do a great tea service at a fancy hotel like
0:15:07 the Barclay or the Connet. I think that is a ton of fun or very British, if you will.
0:15:11 I would do a night out at Soho Farmhouse in the Cotswolds. When I moved to New York, people
0:15:15 said we have beautiful beaches here. I never believe them because I thought, well, I’m
0:15:19 from California and the beaches in the Hamptons are beautiful. And people told me all the
0:15:22 countryside, the British countryside is beautiful. I didn’t believe them. I went out there.
0:15:28 It’s incredible. And Soho Farmhouse is just spectacular. And also along the same lines,
0:15:33 Maison Estelle has a sister property out in the Cotswolds called Estelle Manor, which
0:15:37 is just like Downton Abbey, rehabbed with a bunch of money by people with better tastes
0:15:44 than the Abbeys or whoever they were that operated Downton Abbey. Anyways, great restaurants.
0:15:48 Also just pick a neighborhood and just absolutely just walk around. I think it’s fun to go to
0:15:53 selfridges and have dim sum there. I love those high end malls and my kids for whatever
0:15:58 reason love. I think Westfield’s is kind of, I might tell you to go to malls. Maybe you
0:16:02 don’t have kids. Maybe you don’t need to do this. But anyways, Glenn from New Orleans,
0:16:06 you’re going to have a fantastic time. Sorry, it wasn’t more helpful.
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