Short Biography: Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father, Norton Cuban, was an automobile upholsterer and Mark’s mother, Shirley, as someone with "a different job or different career goal every other week." He grew up in a Jewish family. His paternal grandfather changed the family name from "Chabenisky" to "Cuban" after his family emigrated from Russia. His maternal grandparents, who were also Jewish, were from Romania. Cuban's first step into the business world was at the age of 12, when he sold garbage bags so he could pay for a pair of basketball shoes. Rather than going to high school for his last year in school, he enrolled as a student at the University of Pittsburgh. While attending the University of
The contestants try to convince any one of the sharks to invest money in their idea. When more than one of the sharks decide they want a piece of the action, a bidding war can erupt, driving up the price of the investment, which he would later on get two time primetime emmys awards for outstanding structured reality program for the show “ Shark Tank” Mark is an admirer of author and Ayn Rand. About Rand's novel The Fountainhead, he said the novel was incredibly motivating to him and encouraged him to think as an individual and to take risks and to reach his goals, and responsibility for his successes and failures. His political views have leaned toward libertarianism.While leaning towards libertarianism, Mark posted an entry on his blog saying that paying more taxes to be the most patriotic thing someone can
Part of his donation funded a new title for EFF's staff attorney Julie Samuels Mark formally endorsed Hillary Clinton for President at a July 2016 rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On February 9, 2009, Cuban announced the "Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan".His plan involves individuals posting ideas that fit certain standards in the hopes that either Mark will fund them, or other individuals will take up the ideas. In September 2015, Mark stated in an interview that running for president would have a fun idea , if he were ran in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, he said he could beat bother the Democratic and Republican nominees. Many media outlets thought that because he said it would have been fun to run for president that this indicated that Mark was considering running, but he had said that he had no intention of running for president. In October 2015, Cuban posted on Twitter that he could run for speaker of the house of representatives, but there was no clear front-runner to replace the outgoing John Boehner; the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of