Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur and television personality
Mark Cuban is an American businessman and television personality who founded MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com. He is a former principal owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
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American Born 1958 in Pittsburgh, United States
About Mark Cuban
Born in Pittsburgh in 1958, Mark Cuban got into business young, selling garbage bags and later handling newspapers during a strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington and went on to found the computer consulting firm MicroSolutions, which he sold to CompuServe in 1990. With Todd Wagner, Cuban started Broadcast.com, an early service for streaming audio over the internet, which was later sold to Yahoo!. He bought the Dallas Mavericks in 2000, and the team won the NBA championship in 2011. He is now a minority owner of the club and co-owns 2929 Entertainment. From 2012 to 2025 he appeared as one of the sharks on the TV series Shark Tank. His book in our catalog is How to Win at the Sport of Business.