Carlos Cardona
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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.[1]
Internet entrepreneur
- Founder of several start-ups including Yupi Internet (Yupi.com) (later sold to Microsoft / Telmex) Now latino.msn.com[2]
- Co-founder of Welltok Inc to be acquired by Virgin Pulse
Professional recognition
- Carlos Cardona, influential Hispanic for 2000 - HispanicBusiness.com[3]
- Received both 1999 and 2000 Hispanic Entrepreneur Award “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Magazine, sponsored by IBM.[4]
- Need an Internet Expert for Y2K? Carlos Cardona, Founder and CTO of Yupi.com Prnewswire.com[5]
- Newsweek: Critical Mas: 20 For 2000[6]
- Newsweek: Latin U.S.A.: How Young Hispanics Are Changing America[7]
- Carlos Slim (Telmex) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) buy Yupi.com *Spanish[8]
- Microsoft Press: Microsoft and Telmex Joint Venture, T1msn, to Acquire Yupi Internet[9]
- Microsoft Press: Getting in the Head of 26,000 YupiMSN Users[10]
- Microsoft Press: YupiMSN Introduces MSN Explorer in Spanish[11]
- New York Times: Business; "What they are reading"[12]
References
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External links
- Carlos Cardona - personal web site