After months of planning and preparation, @gregisenberg and I are excited to be able to announce our new project:
The Room Where It Happens: a podcast, show, and community.
Read on for more:
The Room Where It Happens was born of the realization that the most interesting, insightful conversations have historically always happened behind closed doors…
Until now.
TRWIH is a business, technology, and investing podcast and show—but most importantly, it’s a community.
In each episode, we’ll be joined by an amazing guest as we explore the ideas, trends, and models shaping the future of business and tech.
This isn’t an interview podcast.
This is a place for casual, real-time exploration providing an inside look into how insights are created.
The rapid demise of Ozy Media is a story for the ages.
Here's a breakdown on the situation and lessons:
1/ Ozy Media was founded in September 2013 by Carlos Watson and Samir Rao.
Watson had an incredibly impressive story—born to a working class Jamaican family in Miami, he would go on to attend Harvard and Stanford Law School before working at McKinsey and Goldman Sachs.
2/ He later entered the media world and had a semi-successful television career, at one point co-anchoring an MSNBC show and appearing regularly on Morning Joe.
But in 2013, he joined forces with his former Goldman colleague Samir Rao to found Ozy Media.