Ed Elson's Biography

 
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Ed Elson is best known as the co-host of the Prof G Markets podcast. The show is the highest profile aspect of his collaboration with Scott Galloway (Prof G).

He has also researched and written for Scott Galloway’s newsletter, No Mercy / No Malice, and his books The Algebra of Wealth, Adrift and Siege.

Previously, Ed Elson was a research assistant to the writer Michael Wolff.

He was photographed with Woolf, James Atlas, and Lea Carpenter by Patrick McMullan Company.

He studied at Phillips Academy, better known as Andover, from 2013 to 2017 and then studied Classics at Princeton University, where he won the Keaney Prize for Best Senior Thesis.

You can request a copy of his seniot thesis entitled Festivals, Politics, Poetry: Athenian Civic Dynamics between the Great Panathenaea and the Great Dionysia via Dataspace.

Ed Elson graduated in 2021, and said that Commencement "marked the moment that I felt that we needed. I felt it gave me closure, which I was sort of worried that I wouldn’t be able to really feel.”

There is an amusing video of Ed Elson as Class Herald speaking at the virtual Class Day ceremony on May 15, 2021.

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