Carlos Cardona

Carlos Cardona (born 7 March 1974) is a Colombian 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.

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

• http://latino.msn.com/

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"

• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-05-29. 
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-05-29. 
• http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-29-1999/0001104783&EDATE=
• http://www.newsweek.com/id/88900/page/2
• http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-03-1999/0000975520&EDATE=#
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-05-29. 
• http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/jun01/06-21yupipr.mspx
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2009-05-29. 
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2009-05-29. 
• http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/12/business/business-what-they-re-reading.html