Summary
Nate Silver, founder of Silver Bulletin and co-host of the Still Counting podcast, sits down with Scott Galloway on The Prof G Pod to talk about building an independent media business and what advice he has for young creators.
Silver recounts how 538 moved from an independent blog to the New York Times, ESPN, and ABC News before Disney wound it down, and how Silver Bulletin now operates on Substack with a paid subscription model. He describes a four-person, cash-flow-positive operation that never needed outside capital, and argues that a distinctive point of view and consistent hard work still win.
On AI, Silver says young people should not wait around, questioning the value of long graduate programs in a fast-changing world. He recommends using tools like Claude and ChatGPT as productivity aids rather than for cheating, and describes using them to audit and speed up the code behind his statistical models, while noting they are weaker at model design and empirical questions.
📺 Source: The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway · Published November 01, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
