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How Carlos Watson Built a Media Brand to Discover ‘The New and the Next’

How Carlos Watson Built a Media Brand to Discover ‘The New and the Next’

Episode 131 Published 5 years, 9 months ago
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Carlos Watson, co-founder and CEO of Ozy Media, started his company in 2013 as a digital magazine venture that was dubbed by one reader “the love child of Vice and the Economist.” Watson’s ambition for Ozy Media has grown to include TV series, podcasts and a traveling festival featuring top thinkers and entrepreneurs. The former McKinsey & Co. analyst turned journalist discusses how his San Francisco-based company plans to grow even in pandemic times and how he attracted top investors, including Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective and Marc Lasry. 

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