| Billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has become a major investor since selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! at the height of the dot com boom in 1999. His major investments include Landmark Theatres, Magnolia Pictures, and HDNet, and he is also a "shark" investor on ABC's hit show "Shark Tank." He even claims to have invested over four million dollars in people that he's never met and only dealt with via phone and email. In addition to being an investor, Cuban has appeared on Entourage and Dancing with the Stars. He wrote "How to Win at the Sport of Business," and his blog can be found here: blogmaverick.com Fun fact about Cuban: he bought his G5 private jet via email, making him the Guinness Book of World Record holder for the largest ever online transaction. In this interview with Jesse Draper on "The Valley Girl Show," Cuban discusses everything from his first entrepreneurial experience to why he "hates" Silicon Valley. |
