Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is a self-made billionaire , owner of the professional basketball team of the Dallas Mavericks and co-founder of 2929 Entertainment .
Life
Education and business
Mark Cuban grew up as the son of a Jewish working class family in a suburb of Pittsburgh . Immediately after college, he founded MicroSolutions in 1983 , which worked as a system integrator and supported technologies such as Carbon Copy , Lotus Notes and CompuServe . In 1990 he sold the company for 6 million US dollars to CompuServe.
Shortly after the sale, Cuban moved to Dallas, where he began broadcasting games and events online while watching a game from his favorite basketball team. So he founded the company Broadcast.com . In 1999 he sold the company to Yahoo for $ 5.9 billion .
He then bought the NBA team from the Dallas Mavericks , who won the NBA title under him on June 13, 2011. On February 14, 2000, the purchase of Ross Perot for $ 285 million was completed. Since owning the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban has had to pay $ 1.9 million in fines for referee criticism. After winning the championship in 2011, critical comments have become less common.
Cuban is repeatedly mentioned as a possible buyer of the NHL team Pittsburgh Penguins , he has also been interested in buying a Major League Baseball team for a long time, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs were considered candidates .
In film and television
In 2006 Cuban took part in the film All In - Pokerface and played himself in the process. Since 2012, he has been a member of the jury of the US show Shark Tank , the model for the program Die Höhle der Löwen, which has been broadcast on VOX since 2014 . In 2014 he took part in the German movie Nowitzki with a personal interview . The perfect throw , in which the career of the German NBA player Dirk Nowitzki is presented. He also had guest appearances on the television series Billions , Entourage and Walker, Texas Ranger . In 2019 he was seen in his role as Shark Tank judge in the series Grace and Frankie .
Political ambitions
After Cuban had argued over the years with the then entrepreneur Donald Trump , in 2015 Cuban publicly considered making himself available as Trump's running mate in his presidential election campaign . After Trump's election as US President in 2016, which came as a surprise to many observers because of his political inexperience, Cuban indicated several times that he was considering running against Trump in the upcoming 2020 presidential election in the United States . A poll by the - democratically oriented - opinion research institute Public Policy Polling in August 2017 saw Cuban against Trump in the lead.
Wealth and family
Mark Cuban has been married to Tiffany Stewart since September 2002 and has two daughters (* 2005 and * 2007) and a son (* 2010).
Cuban's fortune is listed on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world in May 2019 at over four billion US dollars (478th place).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wish fulfilled: Stern punishes Cuban. In: Spox.com , January 19, 2014.
- ↑ Jacqueline Thomsen: Mark Cuban 'considering' run for president. In: The Hill , October 3, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Mark Cuban. In: Forbes.com , accessed May 6, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cuban, Mark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American IT entrepreneur and self-made billionaire |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States |