Google CEO Sundar Pinchai has testified briefly at the federal financial conspiracy trial surrounding the collapse of once-touted startup Ozy Media.
FILE - Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Google CEO Sundar Pinchai testified briefly Friday at the federal financial conspiracy trial surrounding buzz-to-bust startup Ozy Media, countering founder Carlos Watsons alleged claims that the search giant once sought to buy Ozy.
amid questions about whether it had flagrantly misrepresented its audience reach, deals and finances.to charges including conspiracy to commit fraud. He has said that he built a robust and real company, didn't con anyone and is being singled out for prosecution when he made, at most, entrepreneurial “mistakes.”
Among other deceit, Rao infamously posed as a YouTube executive — even using a phone app to disguise his voice — in order to champion Ozy to Goldman Sachs investment bankers on a February 2021 call. Defense lawyer Ronald Sullivan Jr. has said Watson came into the room during the call, realized “a live train wreck” was unfolding and tried to get Rao to end the conversation.
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