Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA team, and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network.Bartender to dot-com billionaire In 1982, Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas. Cuban first found work as a... Read More

Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA team, and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network.Bartender to dot-com billionaire
In 1982, Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas. Cuban first found work as a bartender, then as a salesperson for Your Business Software, one of the first PC software retailers in Dallas. He was terminated less than a year later for not opening the store on time while out making a sales call finalizing a large software purchase with a customer.

Cuban started a company, MicroSolutions, with support from his previous customers from Your Business Software. MicroSolutions was initially a system integrator and software reseller. The company was an early proponent of technologies such as Carbon Copy, Lotus Notes, and CompuServe. One of the company's largest clients was Perot Systems. In 1990, Cuban sold MicroSolutions to Compuserve—then a subsidiary of H&R Block—f See Less