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Mark Cuban
Technology & Media Entrepreneur, Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, HD Net/AXS TV Chairman & Co-Founder
SPEAKER FEE RANGE: $300,000–$450,000 [FEE NOTE]
TRAVELS FROM: Texas
RELATED TOPICS: Branding & Marketing, Celebrity, CEO & Executive, Entrepreneur, Finance, Innovation & Creativity
Mark Cuban is a top entrepreneur speaker and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He is also the owner and chairman of HDNet, one of the few remaining independently owned and operated TV Networks in the U.S. and the first in the world to be programmed exclusively in high definition. Mark takes personal responsibility for the programming, creating a unique schedule of creative and original programs, outperforming networks owned by much larger corporations and those with much greater distribution.
The owner of 150 companies, Mark Cuban is best known for his straightforward entrepreneurial advice on Shark Tank and his incredible turn-around of the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA basketball team which he has owned since 2000. The self-made billionaire offers frank input on building businesses and growing wealth based on decades of experience.
A business graduate, Cuban knew nearly nothing about computers when he took a job at a Dallas software store. The personal computer revolution was about to sweep the country, and he wanted in. He pulled all-nighters reading software manuals, learning everything that he could about the up-and-coming industry.
After being fired for closing an offsite deal rather than opening the shop, he developed and launched his own company MicroSolutions, which specialized in connecting the computers at a particular business to a common server, a radical notion in the 1980s. At age 32, he sold the company for 6 million USD. Nine years later, his next venture, an online streaming audio service, Broadcast.com, was acquired by Yahoo in 1999 for $5.9 billion in Yahoo stock.
Today, some of Cuban’s well-known companies include Magnolia Pictures, Landmark Theaters, AXS TV, and the Florida-based Alyssa’s Cookies, one of his most profitable Shark Tank investments. Since he joined Shark Tank in its second season, the ABC reality show’s ratings have steadily climbed and the program has snatched three Primetime Emmys for “Outstanding Structured Reality Program.”
Cuban has launched Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company on the belief that every American should have access to safe, affordable medicines. No American should have to suffer or worse - because they can’t afford basic prescription medications.
A business graduate, Cuban knew nearly nothing about computers when he took a job at a Dallas software store. The personal computer revolution was about to sweep the country, and he wanted in. He pulled all-nighters reading software manuals, learning everything that he could about the up-and-coming industry.
After being fired for closing an offsite deal rather than opening the shop, he developed and launched his own company MicroSolutions, which specialized in connecting the computers at a particular business to a common server, a radical notion in the 1980s. At age 32, he sold the company for 6 million USD. Nine years later, his next venture, an online streaming audio service, Broadcast.com, was acquired by Yahoo in 1999 for $5.9 billion in Yahoo stock.
Today, some of Cuban’s well-known companies include Magnolia Pictures, Landmark Theaters, AXS TV, and the Florida-based Alyssa’s Cookies, one of his most profitable Shark Tank investments. Since he joined Shark Tank in its second season, the ABC reality show’s ratings have steadily climbed and the program has snatched three Primetime Emmys for “Outstanding Structured Reality Program.”
Cuban has launched Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company on the belief that every American should have access to safe, affordable medicines. No American should have to suffer or worse - because they can’t afford basic prescription medications.
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