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Biography of Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban is an American entrepreneur and billionaire, best known as the owner of the professional basketball team, the Dallas Mavericks, and the American television channel, HDNet.

He was born on July 31, 1958, in Pittsburgh, United States. Cuban grew up in Pennsylvania, in a working-class Jewish family.

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His father, Norton, was a car upholsterer.

Cuban's first taste of the business world came at a young age when he sold plastic garbage bags to buy a pair of high-quality basketball shoes. He also traded greeting cards, magazines, and beer, and held various jobs such as a bartender and disco dance instructor.

He paid for his college education by collecting and selling stamps, once earning $1,100. Instead of attending high school, he enrolled in the University of Pittsburgh and later transferred to Indiana University, Bloomington, graduating in 1981 with a