austin wheeler mark cubanfrom wikipedia the free encyclopediayou have new messages last change jump to navigation search mark cuban mark cuban with the larry o'brien trophy at the dallas mavericks championship parade born july age pittsburgh pennsylvania u s ethnicity jewish alma mater indiana university occupation owner of dallas mavericks co owner of entertainment and chairman of hdnet net worth us billion spouse tiffany stewart m start marriage tiffany stewart to mark cuban location linkback en wikipedia org wiki mark cuban children daughters son mark cuban born july is an american business magnate and investor he is the owner of the national basketball association's dallas mavericks landmark theatres and magnolia pictures and the chairman of the hdtv cable network hdnet he is also a part time shark investor on the television series shark tank in cuban wrote an e book how to win at the sport of business in which he chronicles his life experiences in business and sports contents hide biography family early career business career magnolia pictures insider trading allegation dallas mavericks ownership nba policy controversies other sports businesses major league baseball political leanings fallen patriot fund the mark cuban stimulus plan film and television credits acting roles as himself references external links edit biographycuban was born in pittsburgh pennsylvania and grew up in the pittsburgh suburb of mt lebanon in a jewish working class family his last name was shortened from chabenisky when his russian grandparents landed on ellis island cuban's father norton was an automobile upholsterer cuban's first step into the business world occurred at age when he sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes while in school he held a variety of jobs including bartender disco dancing instructor and party promoter he paid for college by collecting and selling stamps and once gained about from starting a chain letter rather than attending high school for his senior year cuban enrolled as a full time student at the university of pittsburgh after one year at the university of pittsburgh he transferred to indiana university in bloomington indiana and graduated in with a bachelor's degree in business administration edit familyin september cuban married tiffany stewart an advertising executive in barbados with a wedding reception at the american airlines center their first daughter alexis sofia was born on september their second daughter alyssa was born in tiffany and mark also have a son born in early the family lives in the preston hollow area of dallas in a square foot m mansion edit early careerin 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 after meeting with a client to procure new business instead of opening the store 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 cuban sold microsolutions to compuserve then a subsidiary of h r block for million he retained approximately million after taxes on the deal in cuban and fellow indiana university alumnus todd wagner started audionet combining their mutual interest in college basketball and webcasting with a single server and an isdn line audionet became broadcast com in by broadcast com had grown to employees and million in revenue for the second quarter in during the dot com boom broadcast com was acquired by yahoo for billion in yahoo stock edit business careerafter the sale of broadcast com cuban diversified his wealth to avoid exposure to a market crash as of cuban is no on forbes' list of world's richest people with a net worth of billion the guinness book of records credits cuban with the largest single e commerce transaction after he paid