Thursday, October 13, 2016

A Brief Biography of Mark Cuban

     Mark Cuban is currently one of the world's most respected and idolized media and sports entrepreneur.  Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 31, 1958.  Cuban is an American Businessman who's ethnicity is Ashkenazi Judaism.  While he was born in america, his family comes from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova.  He was born into a middle class childhood.  He was not the richest, nor the poorest.   Cuban's father worked more nearly ten years at a car shop, while his grandfather fed his family by selling merchandise from the back of a truck.  Cuban realized that he had the blood to become an entrepreneur.  His learnings from his father and grandfather influenced him into becoming that man that he is today.  When he was just 12 years old he began to sell garbage bags to save up for different items that he wanted to buy.  His "salesman" mind continued with him to high school where he sold stamps and coins to continue to earn money.  Cuban enrolled as a Junior in high school to the University of Pittsburgh, skipping his senior year.  As a freshman at PITT, he realized that this was not the place for him, and he decided as a sophomore to enroll at Indiana University.  Here he grew his knowledge on different business topics.  

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