Mark Cuban is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The Tycoon is a Dallas Mavericks owner who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 Billion in 1999. He was a part of a number of start-ups because of his participation as a panelist on the ABC show Shark Tank, many of that later proved to be successful.
His Mavericks took home in 2011 the NBA Championship behind star German forward His Mavericks won the 2011 NBA Championship behind star German forward Dirk Nowitzki..
Instead of attending high school for his senior year, he enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Pittsburgh, where he joined the Pi Lambda Phi International fraternity. He is a “beloved” fan of Pittsburgh’s NFL team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. After one year at the University of Pittsburgh, he transferred to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and graduated from the Kelley School of Business in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management. He chose Indiana’s Kelley School of Business without even visiting the campus because “it had the least expensive tuition of all the business schools on the top 10 list”. During college he had various business ventures, including a bar, disco lessons, and a chain letter. After graduating, he went back to his hometown in Pennsylvania and took a job with Mellon Bank and immersed himself in the study of machines and networking.
On July 7, 1982, Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas, where he first found work as 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 meeting with a client to procure new business instead of opening the store.
He got married to He married Tiffany Stewart in 2002 and together they had three children. in 2002. Together they had three children.
