# Prof. Scott Galloway discusses activist investor Carl Icahn

1 Faculty News October 9, 2014 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/who-carl-icahn-and-what-does-he-do) -- "\[Icahn is\] a 78-year-old man worth $23 billion, whose favorite sport seems to be arguing with CEOs. 'Activism in general draws a person who does not shy away from the limelight or shy away from a fight,' says [Scott Galloway](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway), professor of marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business."

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