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Meet Cuba’s first Internet entrepreneurs at Disrupt New York

May 11, 2017

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Cubazon. Kewelta. Knales. These aren’t house hold names in the US but they’re at the vanguard of entrepreneurship in Cuba and they’ll be joining us on stage at Disrupt New York.

We’ll be talking with Bernardo Romero Gonzalez, CEO & founder of Cubazon, an online store for the Cuban diaspora that lets them send products to their relatives back home. He earned his MBA at the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia in Spain and studied engineering in Cuba. His company won the 10x10KCuba initiative as one of the country’s most promising tech companies.

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