Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is an entrepreneur, Cost Plus Drugs co-founder and former Shark Tank investor who shares ideas about business, AI and making healthcare more affordable.
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Diversion BooksOverview
- From
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Education
- Indiana University graduate
- Breakout
- Broadcast.com, sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in stock
- Based in
- Dallas, Texas
- Current focus
- Cost Plus Drugs and entrepreneurship
Mini bio
Early hustle.
Cuban grew up in Pittsburgh selling garbage bags and magazines door to door. After Indiana University, he moved to Dallas, worked as a bartender and then sold software. Getting fired from that software job pushed him to start MicroSolutions, which he sold to CompuServe in 1990.
The internet breakthrough.
Cuban and Todd Wagner wanted to hear Indiana University basketball games in Dallas. That idea helped lead to AudioNet, later Broadcast.com, and its $5.7 billion stock sale to Yahoo. Cuban went on to buy the Dallas Mavericks; the team won its first NBA championship in 2011.
From the Tank to healthcare.
Cuban first appeared on Shark Tank in 2011 and became a familiar face to fans watching founders pitch. His final regular episode aired in May 2025. Away from television, he co-founded Cost Plus Drugs, whose online pharmacy launched on January 19, 2022 with transparent pricing and a limited markup.
Business advice in print.
How to Win at the Sport of Business gathers and updates posts from Blog Maverick, mixing Cuban’s own early experiences with practical advice for entrepreneurs.
Creditschronological, newest first
Television
- 2011–2025Shark TankInvestor; executive producer
Books
- 2013How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do ItAuthor, paperback edition
Awards
Quotes
Trust equals transparency divided by self-interest.Mark Cuban, KFF Health News
In the interview published August 21, 2026: https://kffhealthnews.org/health-care-costs/interview-mark-cuban-fix-healthcare-full-price-transparency/
Trivia
- His first customer at MicroSolutions advanced the money needed to buy its software.
- His business book grew out of posts on Blog Maverick.
- He chose 1955 as an example in his 2025 healthcare post because of Back to the Future.
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