ENCORE: Ozy Media: Pivot to Fraud 206

We’ll be back in two weeks with brand new episodes. In the meantime, here’s one of our favorite episodes, about a wannabe media magnate whose big vision ran on even bigger lies. Carlos Watson is a Stanford Law School graduate with big Silicon Valley connections and even bigger dreams. When he pitches investors on his idea for a Millennial-focused news website called Ozy Media, it seems like a sure bet. It’s the early 2010s, and online media start-ups have generated tons of buzz – and more importantly, tons of clicks. But Carlos doesn't actually know what he’s doing. And when Ozy fails to attract the readers he’s promised his investors, he decides to ditch the business of truth-telling and go rogue. See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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ENCORE: Ozy Media: Pivot to Fraud 206 is an episode from Scamfluencers by Audible.

This episode is 00:45:43 long.

This episode was published on Mar 23, 2026.

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