Cuban was born into a blue-collar Pittsburgh family. His father was an upholsterer and his mother worked odd jobs, and while neither were college-educated, both instilled in him the importance of working hard. His entrepreneurial spirit first manifested itself when he was just 12 years old and went door-to-door selling garbage bags in order to afford a pair of basketball sneakers that he coveted.
In Dallas, Cuban landed a $1,500-a-month job at a computer software company, but not long thereafter was unceremoniously fired — which he now describes as "the best thing that ever happened to me." He spent the next seven years raising funds and building his own computer consulting service, MicroSolutions, and then, at the age of just 32, sold it to CompuServe for $6 million.
Cuban says of Broadcast.com, "We were YouTube before YouTube, we were Pandora, we were Spotify. Anybody that does streaming right now was built on the back of what we did way back when." In July 1998, the company went public with the biggest IPO first-day burst in the history of the stock market — and, sure enough, Cuban was a billionaire. In 1999, Cuban and Wagner sold the company to Yahoo!, splitting $5.7 billion in Yahoo! stock.
as he sat courtside at a Mavericks game and learned that the rest of the NBA season was being suspended due to the coronavirus. The gravity of the crisis began to sink in, and Cuban responded to it early. He told ESPN that he would make sure that all hourly workers at the American Airlines Center, the arena where the Mavs play, would be paid for the duration of the shutdown.
Billionaire supports another billionaire, why I’m just stunned. NOT.
The rich always stick together.
No. Past matters. Especially with 45.
THIS IS EVERYTHING.& HE PICKS HIMSELF UP”EVERYDAY & KEEPS AT IT.”/IT’s ENOUGH W/THE UNFORGIVING SOCIETY, NO ONE IS PERFECT & BUT SOMEONE THAT FIGHTS FOR DOING MORE & BETTER EVERYDAY IS HARD TO FIND & MATCH!! G-D BLESS THE “(UNITED STATES)” OF AMERICA (& Also A MENSCH LIKE CUBAN)
Past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior.
He ain’t gonna change so expect more of the same crazy,unpredictable nonsense.
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