Fernando Espuelas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Fernando Espuelas
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Aug 6, 1966(1966-08-06)
Age	58
Birthplace	Montevideo
Country	Uruguay
Birth City	Montevideo Department
Horoscope	Leo

Fernando Espuelas Biography

Fernando Espuelas is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on August 6, 1966 in Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay. Internet businessman who was known for his role in co-founding Starmedia which was the very first pan Latin Internet portal.

Additionally, his contributions were to Huffington Post, founded by businesswoman He also contributed to the Huffington Post, founded by businesswoman Arianna Huffington…

“It was the most exciting thing in my life”, says the entrepreneur. He recalls how the meeting went: “I didn’t close the sale with him until I showed him a map of Latin America without any borders. He said, ‘Oh, that’s good.'” Rockefeller and the Fund became investors in StarMedia, which moved its headquarters from Connecticut to the city and quickly grew to more than 700 employees worldwide. Espuelas tells this story at a reception that New York’s corporate elite was throwing for Rockefeller’s 86th birthday. He introduces Rockefeller as his “shareholder, partner, and inspiration.”

Seeking to survive at a time when Uruguay experienced acute political and economic crisis, Espuelas and his mother immigrated to the United States in 1976 with only $100. After a series of factory jobs making everything from dresses to ice cream sandwiches, his mother found work as a housekeeper in Greenwich, Connecticut.

He married Ann Clark Espuelas after college.

Fernando Espuelas Net Worth

Fernando Espuelas is one of the richest Entrepreneur from Uruguay. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fernando Espuelas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated from Connecticut College.

He was named as a contributor to Poder Magazine as one of the most influential people in the United States. Hispanics in 2012.

Fernando Espuelas (born August 6, 1966) is an American entrepreneur, author, media personality and philanthropist.

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In 1994 AT&T recruited Espuelas to lead the roll-out of the AT&T brand throughout Latin America. Within a year, he was promoted to Managing Director of Marketing Communications for the Latin American and Caribbean region, becoming one of the youngest executives of that rank at the company. While at AT&T, Espuelas conceived and launched AT&T Hola (in Spanish) and AT&T Ola (in Portuguese), the company’s first online service. A combination of news feeds from Reuters, interactive forums, online games and the first search engine that searched in Spanish and Portuguese, AT&T Hola/Ola was positively received by both the media and consumers across Latin America.

Facts & Trivia

Fernando Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Uruguay. Fernando Espuelas celebrates birthday on August 6 of every year.

In 1996, Espuelas envisioned the portal that would “unite” Latin America: Starmedia. “With the Internet, we’re talking about a fundamental shift in the power structure from the institution to the individual,” Espuelas said.