Mark Cuban Net Worth

Mark Cuban's Quotes

• [on the one thing he would want to hang on to if he should lose all his money and possessions] Diapers. I have little kids. Everything else I could figure out, but I would need those diapers.
• [on success] I used to drive around, look at the big houses and imagine what it would be like to live there, and use that as motivation. But I never imagined that would happen to me. I try not to take any of it for granted, and make sure that no one ever pinches me so I wake up.
• I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.
• [A 2007 prediction about what the next big money-maker might be] The one thing I know is the next opportunity won't be on the Internet. It will be a technology that is somewhere else. Some ten-year-old little girl will come up with it, and we'll all wonder how we missed it.
• [on being approached to fund potential business projects] The list is long, from hair implants to braces, to breast implants. I always get 'I hear that you're worth X amount of dollars, so one tenth of one-percent - you're not going to miss it. Would you just write me a check?' It's fun. It's a good problem to have.

Interesting Facts about Mark Cuban

1. Before Broadcast.com, Cuban founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in 1983, and later sold it to CompuServe.
2. Bought the Dallas Mavericks basketball team on January 14, 2000.
3. Co-founded Broadcast.com, the leading provider of multimedia and streaming on the Internet, in 1995, selling it to Yahoo! in July of 1999 for more than $5 billion.
4. Attempted to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey club in the late 1990s.
5. Was a season ticket holder to the Dallas Mavericks before purchasing the club.
6. Founder of digital network HDNet.
7. As a publicity stunt, worked at a Dallas area Dairy Queen for a day. His "pay" was donated to charity.
8. He and Broadcast.com partner Todd Wagner are large stockholders in Lions Gate Entertainment which produces and distributes motion picture and television programming.
9. Has been listed on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list since 2000 with an estimated net worth of 1.3 to 1.9 billion dollars.
10. Chairman and co-owner of Magnolia Pictures along with Todd Wagner. Magnolia has distributed Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004), Control Room (2004), and others.
11. Chairman and co-owner of Landmark Theaters along with Todd Wagner.
12. Chairman and majority owner of Rysher Entertainment along with Todd Wagner.
13. Is a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.
14. In the Team Penske pits for Helio Castroneves during the IndyCar 300. Cuban and Castroneves previously were both featured on Dancing with the Stars (2005). [July 2008]
15. While studying at Indiana University in 1980-81, Cuban owned and operated a well-known bar called Motley's Pub. It was a huge dance place and as was common in that era often held wet T-shirt contests to drum up customers. Mark was famous among employees for trying to come up with unusual drinks to bring in people, particularly females, so there were lots of concoctions of ice cream or cookies mixed with booze.
16. He is of Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, and Romanian Jewish descent. His family surname had originally been Chabinsky or Chabenisky.
17. Net worth: $3.5 billion.
18. Offered Donald Trump $10 million for a four hour interview. The terms for the interview were that they would only discuss Trump's policy proposals and that no one else besides a broadcast technicians would be present.
19. After he sold Broadcast.com, to Yahoo! he used the profits to buy a $40 million private jet over the internet. According to the Guinness Book of Records it was the largest single transaction to be made over the internet.
20. In college, he was paid to teach dance lessons.