About Mark Cuban
American businessman, investor, producer of motion pictures, philanthropist, media personality, and author Mark Cuban. Cuban co-founded the internet streaming service Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo! in 1999, for $4.8 billion. The billionaire, who makes an appearance on the reality show “Shark Tank” about investors, owns the majority stake in the NBA team Dallas Mavericks as well as stakes in movie theatres, television networks, and technology startups.
Mark Cuban Family
Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His dad, Norton Cuban, was a vehicle upholsterer. Cuban depicted his mom, Shirley, as somebody with “an alternate work or different vocation objective each and every other week.”
Cuban is Jewish, and spent childhood in Mount Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in a Jewish common family. After his family immigrated from Russia via Ellis Island, his paternal grandfather changed the name to “Cuban.” Mark’s brother Brian claims that his maternal grandparents were Romanian Jewish immigrants, despite Mark’s assertion that their maternal grandmother was Lithuanian.
Mark Cuban Career
At the age of 12, Cuban began his business career. To pay for a costly pair of tennis shoes, he sold garbage bags. A couple of years after the fact, he brought in cash by selling stamps and coins. Cuban ran newspapers from Cleveland to Pittsburgh when he was 16 years old and took advantage of a strike by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
On July 7, 1982, Cuban went to Dallas, Texas. There he worked as a salesperson for Your Business Software, one of Dallas’s earliest PC software retailers, and as a bartender for Elan, a bar on Greenville Avenue. He was terminated under a year after the fact subsequent to meeting with a client to get new business as opposed to opening the store.
Cuban began his own organisation, MicroSolutions, with assistance from his past clients from Your Business Programming. MicroSolutions started out as a software reseller and system integrator. The organisation was an early defender of advancements, for example, Duplicate, Lotus Notes, and CompuServe. Perot Systems was a major client of the business.
Mark Cuban Facts
Since the second season of the ABC reality show Shark Tank in 2011, Cuban has been a “shark” investor.
He has invested $19.9 million in 85 deals over the course of 111 Shark Tank episodes as of May 2015. The actual numbers vary because the investment occurs following the live television handshake deal, following due diligence to ensure the accuracy of the pitch room information.
Mark Cuban Net Worth
Cuban’s net worth was estimated to be around $5.1 billion USD, as of 2023, making him a billionaire businessman.
Personal Information
Full Name | Mark Cuban |
Father’s Name | Norton Cuban |
Mother’s Name | Shirley Cuban |
Siblings | Brian Cuban |
Date Of Birth | 31 July 1958 |
Age | 65 Years |
Birth Place | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United State |
Height | 6’2” |
Education | Graduate |
Net Worth | $5.2 Billion |
Profession | Businessman, Film Producer |
Relationship Status | Married |
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