Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 4)

SM: Why did you make the decision to finish building NAP? It sounds as though, given the implosion in the industry, that staying with real estate would have been a better decision. MM: I don’t believe that for a minute. Look at how we are doing today.

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Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 3)

SM: What else was going on around you at this time? Wasn’t Exodus a high-profile data center company at the time? MM: Absolutely. That was in 2000, and Exodus was going through the roof. Global Crossing had a global center.

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Long Road From Cuba: Manny Medina, CEO of Terremark (Part 2)

SM: When did you start getting into the data center business? MM: The more we got involved in the telecom hotels, the more in love I became with the data center business. All the folks who were renting space from us, such as Global Crossing, were operating data centers. Because of that I started learning

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