Mark Cuban: How I Became a Billionaire.
Fantastic video about how Mark Cuban became the person he is. Bloomberg Game Changers profiles Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban is most known from being the dynamic owner of the Dallas Mavericks’ Basketball and his appearances on the television show series Shark Tank.
Mark Cuban is an American businessman and investor who is best known for his role as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, a professional basketball team, and as a panelist on the television show Shark Tank. Cuban is also the co-founder of several successful companies, including HDNet and Broadcast.com.
Cuban’s path to becoming a billionaire was not a straightforward one. He grew up in a working-class family in Pennsylvania and attended Indiana University, where he studied business administration. After graduation, he worked a series of odd jobs before eventually starting his own business, a consulting firm called MicroSolutions.
In the 1990s, Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com, a streaming audio and video company that was eventually sold to Yahoo! for $5.7 billion in 1999. This sale made Cuban a billionaire and helped to establish him as a successful entrepreneur and investor.
Since then, Cuban has continued to invest in a variety of businesses and has also become known as a philanthropist and media personality. His net worth is currently estimated to be around $4 billion.
Mark Cuban Quotes:
A great assortment of Mark Cuban quotes. He has some great advice.
- “You’ve got to work like someone is trying to steal your business.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “What I’ve learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it’s okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they’re out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “The American dream is alive & well.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?” ~ Mark Cuban
- “Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “…is the glass half full or half empty?’ and all I know is I wanna be the guy pouring the water.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers’ shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “You’ve gotta be differentiated and unique. You’ve gotta know what your core competency is and be great at it.” ~ Mark Cuban Quotes
- “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” ~ Mark Cuban
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