How Mark Cuban Bought Mavericks

Mark Cuban was a waiter during his early 20s.

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Mark Cuban bought Mavericks for $285M in 2000.

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Cuban was born in 1958 in Pittsburgh in a working class family.

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In 1981 Cuban graduated from Indiana University.

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Cuban started his career by working as a salesman in a software company.

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After working a few years Cuban started 'Microsolutions' which he sold for $6M in 1990.

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In 1995 Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com, which was sold to Yahoo for $5.7B in 1999.

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Under Cuba's ownership Mavericks won the championship in 2011.

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Today, Mark Cuban is 66 years old and has net worth of $5.7B

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Reason Behind Brian Matusz Death

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