Carlos Watson (Ozy Media) - Taking a Lead From Tech

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Carlos Watson, co-founder and CEO of Ozy Media, describes how its forward-focused digital news magazine, Ozy, looks more toward innovators in business sectors outside traditional media. The Emmy-winning journalist shares the unlikely origins of his entrepreneurial drive, and explains how his wide-ranging career has been fueled by family, curiosity and the thrill of starting fresh.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:17.5	On today's episode, we have Carlos Watson, an entrepreneur and Emmy Award-winning journalist based in Silicon Valley.
0:24.5	In 2013, Carlos co-founded Ozzy, an online magazine offering originally crafted News of the World.
0:31.4	He previously anchored shows on CNN and MSNBC.
0:36.2	He's also a graduate of Stanford Law School.
0:40.0	Thank you, man.
0:40.9	Thank you.
0:44.2	What wonderful welcome.
0:46.9	I'm super excited to be here.
0:49.5	It was fun talking to Tom earlier and thinking back to, I know a number of you were
0:55.5	undergrads and thinking back to being in the class of a guy named Martin Killson, who was my
1:00.2	favorite professor in college in cold weather, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in many ways
1:05.1	was a guy who encouraged me to go the entrepreneurial route.
1:09.0	But I would love to share with you guys a little bit
1:11.0	of what has taken me on this journey.
1:13.1	Some of the things I've learned, good, bad, and other.
1:16.0	And some of the things I still wonder about,
1:18.3	because hopefully I've got a lot more ahead of me.
1:20.7	And then at some point, I'll stop and would love
1:23.6	to get questions from those of you here. I often say I didn't start life off, headed
1:30.0	down an entrepreneurial path. I probably was more likely to be a teacher. I like to joke that
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