Mark Cuban

Chairman of HDNet and Owner
Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures

In September 2001, Mark Cuban launched HDNet, a provider of high-definition news, entertainment and sports programming. Cuban started his own computer consulting firm, MicroSolutions soon after college, which he later sold to CompuServe. In 1995, Cuban and his partner Todd Wagner co-founded Broadcast.com, an Internet service that provided streaming audio and video of live news, radio, television and sporting events. Broadcast.com went public, and was then purchased by Yahoo in 1999, making Cuban one of the wealthiest people in the country. In January of 2000, Cuban used all those bucks to buy the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise, becoming the only owner in team sports to encourage fan interaction through email on his own personal computer. He has also partnered once again with Wagner to create 2929 Entertainment, a holding company that owns 100 percent of Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures Distribution, and Rysher Entertainment, and holds a stake in Lions Gate Entertainment. He is not known as a quiet man.

Posts With Mark Cuban

Don’t Listen to Your Customers

Entrepreneurs need to be reminded that it’s not the job of their customers to know what they don’t. In other words, your customers have a tough enough time doing their jobs.

– From Mark Cuban‘s 2011 book “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”

Mark Cuban Takes Shot at Writing an E-Book

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 20, 2011 at 1:53 pm PT

Mark Cuban has 335,000 friends on Facebook and 760,000 followers on Twitter. Monday, the Internet billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team will test just how friendly those fans really are.

SurveyMonkey’s Goldberg, Joyus’s Cassidy and Airbnb’s Chesky on Silicon Valley Innovation: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 8, 2011 at 2:01 pm PT

A trio of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs give their take on its culture and commerce, and how they’re trying to export that as they venture into Asian markets.

Web Video Doubter Mark Cuban Invests in Web Video Studio Revision3

Peter Kafka in Media on February 1, 2011 at 5:01 am PT

Mark Cuban, Web video skeptic? Meet Mark Cuban, Web video investor. He’s the guy putting money into the company that brings us Diggnation, Tekzilla and Scam School.

Mark Cuban Invests in Device-Tracking Firm

Julia Angwin, Editor, Digits, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 18, 2010 at 9:02 am PT

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban is among investors who have poured $5 million into startup BlueCava, which aims to develop unique IDs for computers, mobile phones and other devices. BlueCava hopes that its device identification system may eventually replace online tracking tools such as cookies.

Would That the Real Mark Zuckerberg Talked as Much as the Facebook Movie Mark Zuckerberg

Kara Swisher in News on October 2, 2010 at 4:01 pm PT

Mark Pincus can sure talk a blue streak. Mark Cuban can easily be classified as a chatterbox, both online and off. And Marc Andreessen certainly knows how to keep up his end of the conversation. In other words, the pantheon of famous digital entrepreneurs is full of blabby Marks. But Mark Zuckerberg, not so much.

Viral Video (And Perfect Casting): Mark Cuban on "Entourage"

Kara Swisher in News on September 1, 2010 at 1:21 am PT

Of course, it makes perfect sense for Mark Cuban to appear in a very long and involved cameo as himself on the HBO original comedy series “Entourage.” Heck, the fun-loving Internet billionaire could easily slip into the pack of young Hollywood dudes on the show and seem part of the gang.

Take That, Mark Cuban! Bengals Receiver Chad Ochocinco Pays $520 a Word for NFL Twitter Fine

Peter Kafka in Media on August 25, 2010 at 5:22 am PT

A $25,000 fine for two tweets comes out to $520 a word (more or less). Or in terms that mean more to an NFL superstar: That’s two months’ worth of Bugatti payments.

Ready for 3-D Web Video? Break Media Is Serving It Up Anyway

Peter Kafka in Media on July 27, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

You probably don’t have a TV or PC that can handle 3-D stuff yet, but no matter: Certain brands are convinced this is the future, and Break Media is happy to work with them.

News Byte

As Long as He Doesn't Rename Them the Golden State Samurai

Voices in News on July 14, 2010 at 5:35 am PT

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison–already a swashbuckling billionaire tech mogul, America’s Cup winner and movie star–is reportedly on the verge of his most challenging takeover yet: The purchase of the woeful Golden State Warriors NBA franchise. Various sources report a deal is imminent, with Ellison to get 80 percent of the team for a price somewhere north of $315 million. Can’t quite imagine the dapper Ellison courtside in a T-shirt a la Mark Cuban, though.

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