Mark Cuban was born on July 31st 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a Jewish working-class family. From the early age of 12, he began showing entrepreneurial skills. He used to sell garbage bags going door to door to pay for shoes and clothes. In high school he earned extra money by selling stamps and old coins. To pay for his college tuition, he even started giving dance lessons.
He graduated from Indiana University in 1981 and moved to Dallas, Texas where he started his first company MicroSolutions, a computer consulting business. For 8 years, he grew MicroSolutions to become an expert in computer networking. In 1990, he sold the company for $6 million. This was also the time when the internet was gaining traction. Sensing that it was going to become the next big thing, he and his friend Todd Wagner started the internet company Broadcast.com. Broadcast.com let people across the globe listen to basketball games. The comapny was a huge success and was soon sold to Yahoo for $5.6 billion.
Cuban always wanted to be a part of professional sports. So, in 2000 he bought the NBA team, Dallas Mavericks for about $300 million. The Mavericks however, were not really a winning team. Cuban planned to turn this around. He sacked many of the old staff, built a new stadium and always supported his players. He sat courtside for many games and cheered for his team, which was rare for a team owner to do. In 2011, the Mavericks finally won their first NBA championship thanks to their star player Dirk Nowitzki.
In 2011 he also appeared in the reality TV show Shark Tank and has invested in over a hundered companies as of 2020. His net worth today is a whopping $4.5 billion and has made the Forbes list of Top billionaires of the world. He currently resides in Dallas with his wife and 3 children.
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