Selling a company for billions of dollars didn't immediately upgrade Mark Cuban's life. In fact, the longtime entrepreneur, investor and "Shark Tank" star found himself in the middle seat of an airplane while"When I sold my company for billions of dollars, to go and celebrate, I was on a Southwest flight," Cuban told ABC News earlier this year. "I was in the center seat facing the wrong way on the plane thinking, 'This is just perfect.'"$5.
That meant continuing to live a low-key lifestyle, which "took away a lot" of risk and uncertainty in his financial life. In an email to CNBC Make It, Cuban confirmed that he "didn't change much after selling my first company" — keeping the same car, house and even furniture. But Cuban did splurge on one luxury item, which meant his days of sitting in the middle seat didn't last long: In 1999, he famously
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MakeIt … is that a story?
MakeIt Why is this a story? Are we supposed to feel bad? Don’t get it.
MakeIt What’s the name of his company?
MakeIt How many times are you gonna run the same story?!
MakeIt He needs lip injections
MakeIt So what
MakeIt …. And?
MakeIt Or he paid CNBC to write a warm n fuzzy feel good article about him. One of the two. 👍
MakeIt Who cares
MakeIt Should've bought his own plane
MakeIt The guy committed securities fraud and you promote him🤦♂️
MakeIt He also pitched investvoyager at dallas maverick games and sent retail customers to the guillotine. He should be sued.
MakeIt Ahhh. Nothing like a ride along with the peasants
MakeIt And yahoo shuttered broadcast in two years. lulz.
MakeIt Holy cow Cuban must pay you well considering how much you pump this nonnews garbage.
MakeIt How many times are you going to post this drivel?
MakeIt That's okay he can rub elbows with us poor Folk you know it's all good but he lost his ass on that cryptocurrency didn't he haha LOL
MakeIt All lies. This guy has professional ball washers and Diamond encrusted hand soaps.
MakeIt Wow!
MakeIt 🎻🎻🎻
MakeIt And that’s a frickin big deal while wars are being ignored. Classic.
MakeIt Mark Cuban: A deeply unlikeable person.
MakeIt Nobody likes you Mark.
MakeIt Mark is Trash
MakeIt omg that’s so relatable
MakeIt What's wrong with that?
MakeIt No, actually he didn’t
MakeIt $5.7B? Wow. Big whoop. I almost always get an exit row and have been upgraded to first 6 times in AmericanAir this year alone.
MakeIt OMG. He had to sit between the sweaty, unwashed masses. Gross.
MakeIt Great! As the rest of The Hoi Polloi (in which group, I proudly belong) would be happy to tell Mr. Mark Cuban, travelling in coach is not half-bad, actually ... usually. mcuban ABCSharkTank MarkCuban
MakeIt Can you post this story just ONE more time? Thanks.
MakeIt The poor bastard, imagine that
MakeIt In 1999 before he bought a private jet. 🤣 gtfo
MakeIt Why the f you repost this 100x?
MakeIt Slow news day?
MakeIt Don't y'all ever tire of tweeting a link to this piece? Original story was published 11 months ago. Not an effective use of social media...
MakeIt You post old stories just to post?!? Sad.
MakeIt This story is over 20 years old and the website he sold was so bad it doesn’t even exist anymore. Just redirects you to Yahoo
MakeIt How much do you think he pays per fluff piece?
MakeIt Same piece of news every 2 hrs
MakeIt First time I've seen this story today. I wonder how many more times will Tweet it? Maybe 15 -20 times? Like CNBC has done every day for the past 10 years or so.
MakeIt Oh no the horror
MakeIt YEah really grounded. And really fake!
MakeIt How many more times will you retweet this garbage story?
MakeIt First time seeing this
MakeIt you repeating this story iver and over!
MakeIt And yet, Oxfam has assigned 100% of that flights emissions to Mark Cuban, because you know, he is a billionaire and that's how Oxfam assigns carbon footprint.
MakeIt Such amazing 🥺
MakeIt How many times will you tweet this story?
MakeIt Proof that you don’t have to be smart to be rich.
MakeIt I sold a company for $13k and took a trip in coach. Holy, wow, you should run my story every 30 minutes for the next 5 years, like you run this one.
MakeIt Bless his heart!
MakeIt Oh man this is so interesting!
MakeIt What’s wrong with being in the middle seat in coach? It’s a chair just like all of the other chairs on the plane.
MakeIt No one cares
MakeIt This is “NEWS” 🤦♂️
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MakeIt Yea because Southwest is awful. Even when I have to take a Frontier flight, I pay the slight extra fee to be able to pick my seat - nosympathy for those who don't plan.
MakeIt Poor Mark Cuban. We get it. Stop tweeting it.
MakeIt Yeah we know. You’ve tweeted this 700 times already.
MakeIt There’s more going on in the world than posting this article over and over again
MakeIt Forgot to mention actually coach in his private jet
MakeIt I am seeing this everyday for last 2 weeks. Stop it
MakeIt Smugnorant
MakeIt I was checking in for a flight and someone else was complaining about their seat so the employee asked me if I would switch and I did without looking into his complaint. I was the laughing stock of the plane, right in front of the engine! noisy
MakeIt I’ve lost my money trading stocks 5 times over and CNBC still posts this same article.
MakeIt That's just stupid...there are limits to this whole 'I'm one of you' b.s. I respect it to a point, then its just silly.
MakeIt Just one of the little people.
MakeIt If that’s the case he is trying too hard…I mean come on.
MakeIt Well at least the plane didn’t go down.
MakeIt Old habits die hard
MakeIt I thought he had a private plane.
MakeIt the horror
MakeIt Nice
MakeIt What a cheap-ass
MakeIt for some reason I call bs
MakeIt Do you trust Mark Cuban?
MakeIt Isn’t this old news?
MakeIt timing, yikes
MakeIt Mite be good for him to get you materials from the us
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MakeIt Well Mark Cuban, the most I ever spent at one time was $12,500. That was me purchasing my Kia in 2006. Paid cash for my sweet little car that some white supremacist stole 01/09. I'd parked it bc I couldn't afford ins at that time for the few months previous. He got 9 yrs. 8 mos.
MakeIt Congrats to him, but he is such a jizzfarmer
MakeIt he probably shouted IM OUT
MakeIt I’d have taken control of the adjoining armrest and NEVER given it up the entire flight 🤣🤣🤣
MakeIt Doesn't he have his own plane
MakeIt still tryna push this story?
MakeIt Oh poor baby!
MakeIt That man is an inspiration.
MakeIt What even is this? Poor poor billionaire?
MakeIt actually this is pretty rough. tough it out Mark.
MakeIt Sorry for his loss
MakeIt IPO IS ANY WHERE IPO CHARGES PREMIUM UPTO 2,14,900% LIKE ANY FACE VALUE OF $100/- CAN COLLECT $ 2,15,000/- EVEN IT IS LOSS MAKING COMPANY IN INDIA ONE OF IPO SHARES OF Rs 100/- FACE VALUE SOLD IN Rs 2,15,000/- SIZE OF IPO IS 6 TIMES MORE THAN SALE LOSS IS 3 TIMES MORE THAN SALE
MakeIt DO NOT INVEST/ENTER IN STOCK MARKET ARE WE EARNING FOR COMPANIES / OPERTORS Rs 100 Face Value Share Rs 2,15,000/- Total Loss 12,000 Cr SALE 3,000 Cr Size of IPO 15,000 Cr Premium 2,14,900% Why IPO Size More Than 600% of Sale Total Loss of More than 300% of Sale
MakeIt Mark Cuban is Fab…
MakeIt All he had to do was call his private jet to take him anywhere in the WORLD
MakeIt Cash hoarders need to be shamed, if you got more than you can spend,you are a hoarder and need mental help
MakeIt Like a 100x already that i hv seen this post..come on..work harder cnbc..
MakeIt And who cares.
MakeIt Is there a reason for re-posting this tweet many times?
MakeIt Wow, how brave of him to share his horror story
MakeIt The wisest advice I ever got was ‘live like a student,’” Cuban said. “That served me a long, long time.”
MakeIt First world problems.. mcuban
MakeIt So?
MakeIt ok…
MakeIt Oh nooo, a billionaire ended up in coach, the tragedy oh nooo 😱
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MakeIt he's in coach in a middle seat with a few billion. we're not allowed to fly because of vax mandates with 1000$ in a checking account. he's not the loser here
MakeIt NO ONE CARES
MakeIt I know about this Shark Tank guy Mark , great guy, he become old. I am speechless now.
MakeIt Oh really nice
MakeIt He’s just like me!!