Carlos Cardona

Carlos Cardona
Born Carlos Alberto Cardona Ospina
(1974-03-07) 7 March 1974
Pereira, Colombia
Residence Miami, United States
Occupation Entrepreneur

Carlos Cardona (born 7 March 1974) is a Colombian internet entrepreneur best known for his Web 1.0 start-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. Yupi was later sold to a joint venture between Microsoft and Telmex after the Dot-com bubble crash.

Internet entrepreneur

  • Founder of several start-ups including Yupi Internet (Yupi.com) (later sold to Microsoft / Telmex) Now latino.msn.com[1]
  • Co-Founder of Welltok Inc

Professional recognition

  • Carlos Cardona, influential Hispanic for 2000 - HispanicBusiness.com[2]
  • Received both 1999 and 2000 Hispanic Entrepreneur Award “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Magazine, sponsored by IBM.[3]
  • Need an Internet Expert for Y2K? Carlos Cardona, Founder and CTO of Yupi.com Prnewswire.com[4]
  • Newsweek: Critical Mas: 20 For 2000[5]
  • Newsweek: Latin U.S.A.: How Young Hispanics Are Changing America[6]
  • Carlos Slim (Telmex) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) buy Yupi.com *Spanish[7]
  • Microsoft Press: Microsoft and Telmex Joint Venture, T1msn, to Acquire Yupi Internet[8]
  • Microsoft Press: Getting in the Head of 26,000 YupiMSN Users[9]
  • Microsoft Press: YupiMSN Introduces MSN Explorer in Spanish[10]
  • New York Times: Business; "What they are reading"[11]

References

  1. ↑ http://latino.msn.com/
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
  4. ↑ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-29-1999/0001104783&EDATE=
  5. ↑ http://www.newsweek.com/id/88900/page/2
  6. ↑ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-03-1999/0000975520&EDATE=#
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
  8. ↑ http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/jun01/06-21yupipr.mspx
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
  11. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/12/business/business-what-they-re-reading.html
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