Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban ( born July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a self - made ​​billionaire, Dallas Mavericks owner and co-founder of 2929 Entertainment. Mark Cuban is in September 2002 married Tiffany Stewart and has two daughters (* 2005 and * 2007).

Life

Mark Cuban grew up as the son of a Jewish working class family in a suburb of Pittsburgh. Immediately after college he founded in 1983 the influential computer company Micro Solutions. In 1990, he sold the company for $ 6 million dollars to CompuServe.

Shortly after the sale, it moved to Dallas Cuban, where he came up with the idea of ​​transferring games and events in the Internet, as he watched a game of his favorite basketball team. So he founded the company Broadcast.com. In 1999 he sold the company for 5.9 billion U.S. dollars in Yahoo.

Then he decided the Dallas Mavericks NBA team to buy that won the NBA title on June 13, 2011, to him. On 14 February 2000, the purchase of Ross Perot was completed at a cost of 285 million U.S. dollars. Since he owns the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban had to pay $ 1.9 million in fines for referee criticism. After winning the championship in 2011, critical remarks have become less frequent.

Again and again, Cuban is mentioned as a possible buyer of the NHL teams Pittsburgh Penguins, also in buying a Major League Baseball team, he is interested for a long time, as candidates were the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. Early August 2008, crystallized the Cubs out as a favorite. According to Forbes Magazine Cuban has a fortune of 2.6 billion dollars and is thus ranked 446 of the richest people in the world.

In 2006 he appeared in the film All In - Poker Face and played with it yourself