Mark Cuban Biography: Age, Height, Parents, Siblings, Wife, Children, Net Worth

Mark Cuban is an entrepreneur, investor, actor, businessperson, writer, film producer, philanthropist, TV producer and TV personality.

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Mark Cuban Biography

Mark Cuban was born on July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Cuban is Jewish, and grew up in Mount Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in a Jewish working-class family.

Cuban first ventured into business at age 12. He sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive sneakers. A few years later, he earned money by selling stamps and coins.

At age 16, Cuban took advantage of a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike by running newspapers from Cleveland to Pittsburgh. Instead of attending high school for his senior year, he enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Pittsburgh, where he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.

After one year at the University of Pittsburgh, Cuban transferred to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he graduated from the Kelley School of Business in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in management.

He chose Indiana’s Kelley School of Business without even visiting the campus because it “had the least expensive tuition of all the business schools on the top 10 list”. He had various business ventures during college, including a bar, disco lessons, and a chain letter.

Mark Cuban Age

He is 65 years old.

Mark Cuban Height

He stands 1.89m tall

Mark Cuban Nationality

Mark Cuban is an American of Lithuanian descent.

Mark Cuban Parents

His birth parents are Norton Cuban, an automobile upholsterer and Shirley Cuban whom he spoke of as having “a different job or different career goal every other week.”

His paternal grandfather changed the surname from “Chabenisky” to “Cuban” after his family emigrated from Russia through Ellis Island. His maternal grandparents were Romanian Jewish immigrants, according to Mark’s brother Brian, though Mark has claimed their maternal grandmother was Lithuanian.

Mark Cuban Siblings

His maternal grandparents were Romanian Jewish immigrants per reports from his brother Brian.

Mark Cuban Career

After graduating, Cuban returned to Pittsburgh and took a job with Mellon Bank, where he immersed himself in the study of machines and networking.

On July 7, 1982, Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas, where he first found a job as a bartender for a Greenville Avenue bar called Elan and then as a salesperson for Your Business Software, one of the earliest PC software retailers in Dallas.

He was fired less than a year later after meeting with a client to procure new business instead of opening the store.

Cuban started his own company, MicroSolutions, with help 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.

The company grew to more than $30 million in revenue, and in 1990, Cuban sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe then a subsidiary of H&R Block for $6 million. He made approximately $2 million after taxes on the deal.

Cuban has also assisted ventures in the social software and distributed networking industries. He was an owner of IceRocket, a search engine that scours the blogosphere for content. Cuban was a partner in RedSwoosh a company that uses peer-to-peer technology to deliver rich media, including video and software, to a user’s PC later acquired by Akamai.

He was also an investor in Weblogs, Inc., which was acquired by AOL. Cuban is so much of a business mogul and he has amassed wealth.

Mark Cuban is the owner of NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and also the cofounder of Cost Plus Drugs. Cost Plus Drugs was launched in January 2022 with the sole aim and purpose of reducing prices of prescription drugs.

Mark Cuban Wife

Mark Cuban is married to Tiffany Stewart. The couple have been together since 2002.

Mark Cuban Children

Mark Cuban has three children with his wife Tiffany Stewart. They are Alexis, Jake and Alyssa.

Mark Cuban Net Worth

According to Forbes, Cuban’s net worth is an estimated US$5.1 billion, and he was ranked #177 on the Forbes 400 list in 2020.

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