Mark Cuban
Definition
American billionaire entrepreneur, investor, television personality, and minority owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, having sold majority control in 2023.
Co-founder of Broadcast.com, sold to Yahoo! for $5.7 billion in stock in 1999 during the dot-com boom.
Longtime 'shark' investor on ABC's Shark Tank from 2011 to 2025, where he invested nearly $20 million across 85 deals.
Founder of Cost Plus Drugs, an online pharmacy aiming to reduce generic drug prices through transparency, and vocal libertarian-leaning political commentator who supported Democratic candidates like Kamala Harris in 2024.
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Even after selling his majority stake, Mark Cuban still shows up courtside at Mavericks games wearing goofy jerseys and hyping the crowd.
My startup pitch bombed harder than a pre-Cuban Mavericks season, but hey, at least I didn't cry like some Shark Tank rejects.
Mark Cuban turned garbage bags into his first hustle at age 12 – talk about leveling up from trash to billions.
When crypto tanks, just remember Mark Cuban once bet big on Dogecoin and lived to meme another day.