2. Background information
• born on July 31st, 1958 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
• middle class family
• Age 12, started selling garbage bags to save
for expensive shoes
• In high school he worked as a bartender,
teaching disco dancing, & party promotions
3. Education
• Enrolled as a full time student at the
University of Pittsburgh
• Transferred to Indiana University for their
undergraduate business school
• Only went to receive his bachelor’s degree
• Never returned for his masters
4. His early years
• July 1982, moved to Dallas
• Started working as a sells person
• Later, started his own company called Micro
Solutions
• Sold it for $6 million in 1990
• 1995 started broadcast.com
• grew to revenues of almost $100 million &
330 staff
5. New beginning
• 2000 he paid $285 million to become the new
owner of the Dallas Mavericks
• Bought a mansion in Dallas
• $41 million jet
6. Dallas Mavericks
• Cuban sits alongside fans at all games
• gets very passionate, having paid well over $1
million in fines for lashing out at officials and
referees
• also matches his NBA fines with charitable
donations of equal amounts
7. Difference in the Mav’s
• 20 years before Cuban owned them they had
a win-loss record of 644-964 (40%)
• 6 years after Cuban taking control there win-
loss went to 340-152 (69.1%)
8. Other ventures
• Started a high definition TV network called
HDNet
• shows sports, movies & various other shows
9. Cont..
• Cuban works with his old broadcast.com
partner, in another business called 2929
Entertainment
• Produces & distributes films and video
