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Residence
  
Miami, United States

Role
  
Entrepreneur

Name
  
Carlos Cardona

Partner(s)
  
Humberto Gomez

Occupation
  
Entrepreneur


Carlos Cardona httpslh6googleusercontentcomEx775YhX0kAAA

Full Name
  
Carlos Alberto Cardona Ospina

Born
  
7 March 1974 (age 50) (
1974-03-07
)
Pereira, Colombia

Episode 265 - (Featuring Roberto Carlos Cardona)


Carlos Cardona (born 7 March 1974) is a Colombian internet entrepreneur best known for his Web 1.0 star-up Yupi Internet. He started his first company at the age of 18. His company went on to raise US $150 million from venture capitalists including Sony, Comcast and News Corp. Later sold to a joint venture between Microsoft and Telmex after the Dot-com bubble crash.

Contents

Internet entrepreneur

  • Founder of several start-ups including Yupi Internet (Yupi.com) (later sold to Microsoft / Telmex) Now latino.msn.com
  • Co-Founder of Welltok Inc

    • Professional recognition

  • Carlos Cardona, influential Hispanic for 2000 - HispanicBusiness.com
  • Received both 1999 and 2000 Hispanic Entrepreneur Award “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Magazine, sponsored by IBM.
  • Need an Internet Expert for Y2K? Carlos Cardona, Founder and CTO of Yupi.com Prnewswire.com
  • Newsweek: Critical Mas: 20 For 2000
  • Newsweek: Latin U.S.A.: How Young Hispanics Are Changing America
  • Carlos Slim (Telmex) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) buy Yupi.com *Spanish
  • Microsoft Press: Microsoft and Telmex Joint Venture, T1msn, to Acquire Yupi Internet
  • Microsoft Press: Getting in the Head of 26,000 YupiMSN Users
  • Microsoft Press: YupiMSN Introduces MSN Explorer in Spanish
  • New York Times: Business; "What they are reading"

    • References

    Carlos Cardona Wikipedia
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