# Professor Scott Galloway dicusses the trend of Internet companies bringing back their founders

1 Faculty News March 30, 2016 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/03/30/why-yet-another-internet-company-is-bringing-back-its-founder/) -- "[Scott Galloway](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway), a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, said that tech companies 'age in dog years, so the founders are usually still alive. By the time a \[consumer-packaged goods\] company goes through maturity and decline, they're talking to the grandkids. Some of it is just the pace of the lifecycle.'"

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