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Mark Cuban was born on July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Mark Cuban went to Mount Lebanon High School. He didn't attended his senior year there, instead he was enrolled as a full time student at University of Pittsburgh.
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He had a various amount of jobs in high school, such as: bartender, disco dancing instructor, and party promoter.
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Mark Cuban attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He graduated from the Kelley School of Business in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
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He was one of the first PC software retailers in Dallas.
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In 1982, Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas. Cuban first found work as a bartender, then as a salesperson for Your Business Software.
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Cuban started a company, MicroSolutions. In 1990, Cuban sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe for $6 million.
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Cuban and Todd Wagner started Audionet, interest in Indiana Hoosier college basketball and webcasting.
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Audionet became Broadcast.com in 1998. By 1999, Broadcast.com had grown to 330 employees and $13.5 million in revenue for the second quarter.
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In 1999, during the dot com boom, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo! for $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock.
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On January 4, 2000, Cuban purchased a majority stake in the NBA's Dallas Mavericks for $285 million from H. Ross Perot, Jr.
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In September 2002, Cuban married Tiffany Stewart. They have two daughters and one son. The family lives in the Preston Hollow area of Dallas, in a 24,000-square-foot mansion.
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In February 2004, Cuban announced that he would be working with ABC television to produce a reality television series, The Benefactor.
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1.Smart
2.Puts priorties well
3.Leader
4.Innovative
5.Persuasive