Who is Mark Cuban?
A: Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur, television
personality, and media proprietor.
What is Cuban’s net worth according to Forbes?
A: An estimated $4.7 billion and ranked No. 177 on the 2020 Forbes 400 list.
He is the owner of what professional basketball team?
A: Dallas Mavericks.
He is also one of the main "shark" investors on what
ABC reality television series?
A: Shark Tank.
Where was Cuban born?
A: In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
His father, Norton Cuban, was a what?
A: An automobile upholsterer.
How did Cuban describe his mother, Shirley?
A: As someone with "a different job or different career goal every other
week."
What religion is Cuban?
A: Cuban is Jewish, and grew up in Mount Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in
a Jewish working-class family.
His paternal grandfather changed the surname from
"Chabenisky" to "Cuban" after what?
A: After his family emigrated from Russia through Ellis Island.
Cuban first ventured into business at what age?
A: 12.
He sold garbage bags to pay for what?
A: A pair of expensive basketball shoes.
Some years later he earned money by selling what?
A: Stamps and coins.
At age 16, Cuban took advantage of a Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette strike by doing what?
A: Running newspapers from Cleveland to Pittsburgh.
What did he do instead of attending high school for his
senior year?
A: He enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Pittsburgh, where
he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.
He is a fan of what team of the National Football
League?
A: The Pittsburgh Steelers.
After one year at the University of Pittsburgh, Cuban
transferred to where?
A: Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he graduated from the
Kelley School of Business in 1981 with a Bachelor of
Science degree in
management.
Why did he choose Indiana's Kelley School of Business
without even visiting the campus?
A: Because it "had the least expensive tuition of all the business schools
on the top 10 list".
He had various business ventures during college,
including what?
A: A bar, disco lessons, and a chain letter.
After graduating, Cuban returned to Pittsburgh and took
a job with who?
A: Mellon Bank.
He immersed himself in the study of what?
A: Machines and networking.
On July 7, 1982, Cuban moved to Dallas,
Texas, where he
first found a job as a what?
A: Bartender for a Greenville Avenue bar called Elan and then as a
salesperson for Your Business Software, one of the earliest PC software
retailers in Dallas.
He was fired less than a year later after doing what?
A: Meeting with a client to procure new business instead of opening the
store.
Cuban started his own company, MicroSolutions, with
help from whom?
A: His previous customers from Your Business Software.
MicroSolutions was initially a what?
A: A system integrator and software reseller.
The company was an early proponent of technologies such
as what?
A: Carbon Copy, Lotus Notes, and CompuServe.
The company grew to more than $30 million in revenue, and in 1990, Cuban did what?
A: He sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe—then a subsidiary of H&R Block—for $6 million.