Carlos Cardona
Carlos Cardona in 2009.
Born	Carlos Alberto Cardona Ospina 7 March 1974 (1974-03-07) (age 35) Pereira, Colombia
Residence	Miami, United States
Occupation	Entrepreneur

Carlos Cardona (born 7 March 1974) Carlos an internet entrepreneur best known for his Web 1.0 star-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. Later sold to a joint venture between Microsoft and Telmex after the Dot-com bubble crash.

[edit] Internet Entrepreneur

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

[edit] 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]

Personal Web Site Carlos Cardona