Carlos Cardona (born 7 March 1974) is a Colombian internet entrepreneur best known for his Web 1.0 start-up

Yupi Yupi was a Spanish-language Internet portal founded in 1997 by Carlos Cardona and Camilo Cruz in Miami Beach, Florida. Company history Yupi Internet Inc. was founded in May 1996. Its flagship portal site, Yupi.com, was a Spanish-language content ...

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.

was later sold to a joint venture between Microsoft and Telmex after the

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crash.

Internet entrepreneur

* Founder of several start-ups including

Internet (Yupi.com) (later sold to Microsoft / Telmex) Now latino.msn.com * Co-founder of Welltok Inc to b
acquired
by

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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

External links

Carlos Cardona
- personal web site {{DEFAULTSORT:Cardona, Carlos Colombian businesspeople 1974 births Living people Businesspeople in information technology