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The Sweet, Sweet Irony of Mark Cuban and Yahoo

in News on May 15, 2008 at 4:25 pm PT

Of the amazingly Internet-experience-free board that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has proposed to replace Yahoo’s current directors in this proxy fight, there is one name who does have a lot of Web-related experience, especially with regards to Yahoo. Specifically, in how to make bank from Yahoo’s desperation. That would be entrepreneur and all-around bon vivant Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in the heady days of 1999 for $5.7 billion in Yahoo stock.
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