Charles Watson
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858 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2021
last heard Jan 2021
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From there, I'm like, you know what?
I never got to go to the University of Georgia and I need to go to a couple football games.
So I applied and did the two-year MBA program at UGA, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
I was probably 25, 26 at the time.
And then a couple iterations there, a couple more uh bounces at US franchise systems and Wyndham Hotels.
Early 2009, I ran into Scott Presley and he introduced me to a brand that he was working with on the private equity side called Tropical Smoothie Cafe.
And I said, Tropical Juli, what?
Huh?
What?
Huh?
Uh no idea what it was.
I was doing some contract work at the time and I was up in Ohio and I, you know, like you do, I I sought out a tropical smoothie cafe.
And I can't say that my first impression bowled me over that I was super uh super impressed.
But I took a flyer on it.
It was a time in my life I was still single, I was willing to take a shot at something.
It was still founder led and run.
And so I would commute back and forth from Atlanta to Destin, Florida, where the company was headquartered for a couple years.
That's where I met my
Rotundo, our previous CEO, you know, and Mike and I got to work uh on the business along with Scott Presley and Eric Jinrich and David Walker, the two founders.
And that's kind of where the kind of where the story started.
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