Mark Cuban: How I Became a Billionaire

Bloomberg Game Changers profiles Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban. See how Cuban spun his love of basketball into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
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[Shawk]

The best thing I like about Mark Cuban is that he openly and unabashedly acknowledges that luck played a big role in his success.

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"Mark Cuban: How I became a billionaire"

Not interviewed for the story: Mark Cuban.

[saqibqureshi]

The level of awareness he has is awesome. At least he knows he is the luckiest man, giving credit to faith rather than himself. That shows intelligence and humility.

[sixtenrasmussen]

“Mark Cuban got in at the beginning of the internet boom”.
There you have it lol.

[MineCrafterCity]

I've never understood how Yahoo could be so big when no one is using it

[LearningREADefined]

Those who are saying Elon Musk is better have to realize that this isn't a popularity contest. If you want to be successful, you have to learn from ALL great people, not just one. EVERYONE has something we can learn.

[SeeburgMusic]

His hair is a different color in every video-- and for that reason, I'm out.

[mikestarks]

Cuban is humble enough to admit luck and timing play a huge role. Persistence, attitude, vision and 100 hour weeks are always prerequisites however.

[timcross]

At least Mark Cuban recognizes he was very fortunate, the timing of his internet based companies was rather impressive.

[grahamroberto]

When you invest you're buying a day you don't have to work.

[rachelmorrow]

1:11 He humbly says he's lucky, but we all know that luck falls into the laps of those who are most prepared

[huzar]

So Mark Cuban stole the idea of AudioNet just as Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea of Facebook.

The Lesson: Dont pitch your business idea to a Mark.

[dancegod]

Running the mavericks like that is absolutely visionary. Bringing spokesperson marketing tactics to sports teams and making the team feel like winners by giving them passionate fans and amazing treatment. No wonder they won. He even had the money for the fines so he really went with no rules.

[danielallyway]

Making millions is easy.

Earning $1 billion is just becoming a millionaire 1000 times!

[yungdcwa]

MARKS BROTHER IS LIKE A CLONE THAT WAS NOT COMPLETELY DONE

[HDLTHEDR]

1 thing I can say from personal experience, is that he takes care of not only his family & employees, but also staff & employees of other companies wherever he goes or is stationed. Thank you Mark for your generosity come Holiday season, God Bless!

[jxsilicon]

Mark Cuban was lucky enough that Yahoo was stupid enough to throw money at that crap like a lot of companies did during boom. And they all lost a lot of money also.

[MissDeniran]

Mark you just inspired me. I hate that i am too self driven and it sometimes takes a toll on my team. But in all i love to win and i love to have my team experience success. I hope we someday make the world see all the results of our efforts.

[incipidsigninsetup]

This isn't rocket science. Yahoo grossly overpaid for his Internet broadcast network in the days of dialup. They over paid by such a huge margin that they were all fired because of it. That sale alone made him a billionaire and after you make your first billion making your second becomes much much easier.