Carlos Cardona
# 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"
