Carlos Ardila Lülle

Carlos Arturo Ardila Lülle is a Colombian entrepreneur and the founder and head of the Organización Ardila Lülle, a major Colombian conglomerate which controls companies such as RCN TV, the Postobon soft drink, and the Atlético Nacional football team. His net worth is estimated at over $2.4 billion U.S. dollars.

Carlos Ardila Lülle built a fortune selling soda and got even richer by investing in bottling companies, radio and TV stations, and sugar refineries.
He started his career working for his father-in-law’s soda company, where he created an apple-flavored drink that quickly became a top seller.
In 1973 he bought his first radio station and built Radio Canal Nacional by acquiring smaller stations.
When the Colombian government privatized television in 1998, he started RCN TV, now worth significantly more than his radio properties.
In 2012 he partnered with Rupert Murdoch to create MundoFox, a Spanish-language channel targeted at U.S. Hispanics; it shut down in 2016.

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