Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CEO Primary Organization OZY Media
Location Mountain View, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Carlos Watson co-anchors MSNBC 2 p.m. news program from NBC headquarters at 30 Rock.
A Harvard grad, he got his start in politics, serving as campaign manager and chief of staff for Florida Representative Daryl Jones and managing Bill Clintonâs 1992 Election Day effort in Miami-Dade County.
While at Harvard, he also worked with Senator Bob
Graham, DNC Chair Ron Brown, and Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez.
After graduating from Stanford Law, where he edited the Law Review, Watson joined the business world, advising Fortune 500 companies as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.
He later struck out on his own and co-founded Achieva College Prep Services, which helped thousands of high school students prepare for college and was written about in Time and Forbes, among others.
Watson sold the firm to the Washington Post/Kaplan in 2002.
