Carlos Cardona

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 Co-founder of Welltok Inc to be acquired by Virgin Pulse

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"