# Professor Scott Galloway highlights the benefits of splitting up large tech firms, from his book, "The Four"

1 Faculty News January 5, 2018 ![WIRED logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032348.jpg?itok=Wszefc-R)>

Excerpt from [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-curb-silicon-valley-power-even-with-weak-antitrust-laws/) -- "NYU professor [Scott Galloway](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway), author of The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, thinks that tech CEOs should preemptively break their companies apart to stave off further public backlash and to 'guard against ham-handed regulation that might be imposed.'"

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