A few days after Ozy Media’s board of directors said the digital media company was shutting down, CEO Carlos Watson is saying not so fast.

“We’re going to open for business,” said Watson, a former MSNBC anchor, during an interview on NBC’s Today Monday.

“This is our Lazarus moment, if you will; this is our Tylenol moment,“ Watson said. “Last week was traumatic, it was difficult, heartbreaking, in many ways.” 

Watson conceded that operations were suspended on Friday with plans to shut down.

“And as we spent time over the weekend we talked to advertising partners, we talked to some of our readers, some of our viewers, our listeners, our investors,” said he claimed plans changed.

“I think Ozy is part of this moment, and it’s not going to be easy, and I think what we do with newsletters, what we do with TV shows, original TV shows, podcasts and more, I think has a place,” he said.

Ozy appeared to quickly collapse last week after a New York Times article indicated that Ozy’s chief operating officer impersonated a Google executive during a fundraising call with Goldman Sachs.

Watson called the New York Times story a “hit job” in a tweet last week.

Digital media company Ozy Media suddenly announced Friday it would be shutting down.

On Monday, the company was the subject of an article in the New York Times that made the shocking claim that Ozy’s COO impersonated a Google executive during a meeting with Goldman Sachs aimed at raising $40 million. The executive on the call was trying to assure Goldman Sachs that Ozy’s content was performing well on YouTube.

After the call YouTube started an investigation and Google alerted the FBI.

The company later apologized to Goldman Sachs, saying that COO Samir Rao was going through a mental health crisis.

Ozy’s board released a statement announcing the shut down.

“At Ozy, we have been blessed with a remarkable team of dedicated staff. Many of them are world-class journalists and experienced professionals to whom we owe tremendous gratitude and who are wonderful colleagues. It is therefore with the heaviest of hearts that we must announce today that we are closing Ozy’s doors,” the statement said.

Ozy Media was founded by former MSNBC anchor Carlos Watson and was backed by Laurene Power Jobs’ Emerson Collective and Marc Lasry, co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.

According to Axios, the company had 75 full-time employees.

Americans are split over how technology is impacting society as a whole, with 49% of those surveyed saying tech makes individuals less intelligent and 46% saying technology makes people smarter. And just 51% of Americans say the benefits of technological advances outweigh the risks.

That’s according to the results of a Point Taken-Marist poll, commissioned by WGBH Boston for its late-night PBS debate series Point Taken, hosted by Carlos Watson, co-founder and CEO of OZY Media. The episode tackling the results of the poll will air June 21 at 11 p.m. ET.

Perhaps surprisingly, the younger the survey respondent, the less likely they are to give technology the benefit of the doubt: Millennials (53%) and Gen Xers (53%) were more likely than Baby Boomers (48%) and the Silent/Greatest generation (38%) to say technology makes us less intelligent.

“If you think younger people are all in for technological revolution, think again,” said Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, in a statement. “This national survey shows surprising differences among generations and their appreciation for innovation.”

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