Carlos Cardona

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Carlos Cardona
Born
Carlos Alberto Cardona Ospina

(1974-03-07) 7 March 1974 (age 48)
Occupation Entrepreneur

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. [1]

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