"You need to keep focused in the future you've envisioned, the future you're creating for yourself everyday."

In a wide-ranging international career spanning three decades, Espuelas has bridged the worlds of media, technology, and politics. He's been a serial entrepreneur and CEO.

 

One of the Internet's pioneers, Espuelas co-founded StarMedia Network, Inc.  StarMedia led the way in the development of the Latin American Internet industry, including raising the first dollar of venture funding and first IPO for a Latin American Internet company. StarMedia was renowned for product innovations like the first free email service, first instant messaging system, first online TV network with CBS News, and other breakthrough mobile and broadband Internet services that impacted the lives of millions of people.

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Fernando Espuelas is a Henry Crown Fellow and Member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

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Espuelas has produced and hosted top-rated national TV and radio programs, and contributed to CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, FoxNews, France 24, Hearst Television & Radio, The Hill, The Huffington Post, iHeart, NPR News, MSNBC, La Opinión, Sky News, Spotify, Univision, and many other platforms.