Carlos Cardona
Encyclopedia
Carlos Cardona is 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.
Internet (Yupi.com) (later sold to Microsoft / Telmex) Now latino.msn.com
Yupi
Yupi is a Latin Internet portal founded in 1997 by Carlos Cardona, a young web developer from South Florida. Yupi was one of a handful of the first major sites for Hispanics on the Internet in the late 1990s Dot-com bubble. Yupi.com was a major force in Silicon Beach "the prime Internet hub for...
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
Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2000 during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the more...
crash.
Internet entrepreneur
Founder of several start-ups including YupiYupi
Yupi is a Latin Internet portal founded in 1997 by Carlos Cardona, a young web developer from South Florida. Yupi was one of a handful of the first major sites for Hispanics on the Internet in the late 1990s Dot-com bubble. Yupi.com was a major force in Silicon Beach "the prime Internet hub for...
Internet (Yupi.com) (later sold to Microsoft / Telmex) Now 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"