'Look—it's heartbreaking, it's wrong, it's not good, it's not OK,' CEO Carlos Watson said of the company's co-founder impersonating a YouTube executive.
The CEO of Ozy Media, Carlos Watson, called the incident in which the company's co-founder impersonated a YouTube executive during a call with a Goldman Sachs investor"heartbreaking."published a column reporting on several scandals within the company, including an incident involving Ozy's chief operating officer and co-founder, Samir Rao. Rao reportedly impersonated a YouTube executive during a conference call with an investor from Goldman Sachs.
"Look—it's heartbreaking, it's wrong, it's not good, it's not OK," Watson said."I love Goldman, I worked there, I've got a lot of friends there."The CEO of Ozy Media called the incident where the company's co-founder reportedly impersonated a YouTube executive during a conference call with a Goldman Sachs investor"heartbreaking." Above, a picture shows a You Tube logo on December 4, 2012, during LeWeb Paris 2012 in Saint-Denis, France.
The website had at least one new post as of Friday, when Ozy's board of directors on said the company was ceasing operations. The shutdown came less than a week after acolumn raised questions about the media organization's claims of millions of viewers and readers, while also pointing out a potential case of securities fraud.
Mountain View, California–based Ozy, which had raised more than $70 million from investors as of late 2019, according to the website Crunchbase, has long been suspected of inflating its audience size. Watson claimed last week that Ozy had 25 million subscribers to its newsletter and 30 million YouTube views., with a much bigger brand presence, says it has 15 million newsletter readers.
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