Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is an American businessman and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and chairman of AXS TV. He is also one of the main “shark” investors on the ABC reality television series, Shark Tank.
- Mark Cuban founded video portal Broadcast.com with fellow Indiana University alum Todd Wagner in 1995 and sold it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999.
- Today he owns the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and has stakes in Magnolia Pictures, AXS TV and dozens of small startups.
- He sold stamps door-to-door as a kid and gave disco lessons to help pay his way through Indiana University.
- Cuban was inspired to strike out on his own when he was fired from a software shop for closing a $15,000 sale instead of cleaning up the store.
- He invests in mission-driven companies such as Luminaid, which provides lighting to disaster areas, and Mahmee, a maternal healthcare tech company.
