Mark Cuban will be joining the TechCrunch50 program on Tuesday, September 9 for a one-on-one interview with Jason Calacanis from the main stage. You probably know Mark as both the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Broadcast.com with Todd Wagner. They then sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in July of 1999 for $5.04 billion. Before Broadcast.com, Mark co-founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in 1983, and later sold it to CompuServe.
Mark has continued his work with Todd Wagner in another venture, 2929 Entertainment, which provides vertically integrated production and distribution of films and video. Additionally, Mark is a co-founder (with Philip Garvin) of HDNet, the first high-definition satellite television network.
Even with all of his entrepreneurial, sports and corporate experience, Mark recently found time to participate as one of the 12 contestants on the 5th season of the ABC Show Dancing with the Stars. Mark and his partner, Kym Johnson, were the fifth couple to be voted off of the show after welterweight boxing champion Floyd Mayweather and professional partner Karina Smirnoff.
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you should get Brian Cuban and Mark Cuban to take on Jason 2 on 1. Brian Cuban is one of the best Digg users today.
I bet you Jason could serve both of them actually.
Serial entrepreneur…come on. That dude packs as much innovation as the whel.
“book their hotel reservations (many hotels are already sold out” – Sure!
That was smart not giving us the time of broadcast…..Guess I really have to watch twitter that day
Mark Cuban is not a entrepreneur. He is one of luckiest SOB in human history. He sold his idea of broadcast.com to bunch of morons who were buying anything and everything.
The only smart move that he made was that he didn’t keep the stocks…he cashed out.
He’s not an entrepreneur but a lucky guy who sold a 5 billion dollar useless business.
Nonsense. If you don’t like him then just call him a blowhard. But he’s definitely an entrepreneur. He founded and sold at least two companies. And he seems pretty interested in starting more.
NBA Fan, that’s ridiculous! The business he sold to Yahoo, http://www.broadcast.com, is incredibly useful. I mean, it PERFECTLY redirects people to http://www.yahoo.com, day-in, and day-out. Never a day goes by where I don’t rely on broadcast.com to get me to the 2nd best search engine on the net. BRILLIANT!
After further researching this (read: browsing Wikipedia), I see I’ve been much too harsh on broadcast.com. It truly was brilliant, and Yahoo was genious to steal it away for merely 5 billion dollars. After all, after they bought it, “Yahoo! split the services previously offered by Broadcast.com into separate services, [the world famous] Yahoo! Launchcast for music and Yahoo! Platinum for video entertainment.”
And then some idiots from paypal beat them to the punch with youtube. Good jo assholes. I hope the mavericks are worth it. Nothin else could be.
Hey Micheal,
You forgot to add another thing to the Bio….
He hosted a show called The Benefactor.
http://en.wikip.../The_Benefactor
One of the worst shows ever created on TV. It was so bad that it was canceled without announcing the winner.
It didn’t even register a single rating point in the DFW market.
Ask him why he is the biggest douchebag trying to represent himself as one of the leaders of industry. Ask him why he supported the film financially “Redacted” when he knew it was wrong to sabotage and utterly disparage young men much better and more noble than he will ever be. Mark Cuban is a boil on the ass of humanity – and you congratulate him. So sorry to see all the wannabes in Silicon Valley stoop so low to have their asses kissed by such scum. Arrington and Calacanis, you are too smart too enlist this man as your hero. Smarten up.
Ya his brother is like a power user on digg.
Mark Cuban is not a tech visionary. He is a lucky bastard. Broadcast.com was a joke.
you people talk a lot of shit for being clueless.
hey loren, what do you even know about broadcast.com ?
Yeah Im lucky. And proud to be. I was lucky with MicroSolutions when we started selling LANS in 1983 before anyone else and sold to compuserve. I was lucky selling corporate business applications I wrote and developed. I was lucky with Precept, a hedge fund built on my tech background that I sold (didnt know about that one did you..). I was lucky with broadcast.com , I was lucky to start HDNet years before anyone else thought HD had a chance, lucky with about 10 other companies too.
I will keep on getting lucky, you guys will keep on writing comments on blogs.
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You make your own luck, nothing wrong with that, and if you catch the high point of the wave then so much the better.
We’re all a bit jealous of success Mark – some more than others.
Water / duck.
Is that you Mark Cuban???
Whats the deal with Devon George? Are you kidding…
Not that you signed him but is that your only signing? The Mavs got killed and you are sitting there. This team will not go anywhere as is. Either blow this thing up and start over or make something happen.
BTW congrats on your success. But my complaint is simply that your not a “tech entrepreneur”. You got lucky with Broadcast and now you throw your money and are hoping to land on a hot startup. You are a good salesman. You did a good job with the mavs until this season.
Another thing….I think you are the only billionarie i can think of that has made tons of money of a product that no one uses after only a few years. I think we will know you as a famous sports team owner but not a “tech entrepreneur”.
Can someone tell me another product that failed that a billionaire made to get super rich?
lucky but couple billion worth of luck
i wish i was that lucky
btw mark is thee man
hopely he get cubs
hdtv pusher. claims tv sets are the meat and potatoes (meal) of entertainment and the internet and tv may never mix. is he right? my reality is that the internet has released the tv monkeys and now they are slowly becoming internet UGC gorillas. you make the call.
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Great pickup. The TC50 lineup looks great!
Nice picture for the piece
That bird has hot legs *shwing
Mark,
How are you integrating soclial media into HDNet?
As someone who saw Audionet start up….who exactly was doing radio and games from anywhere over the Net until then? No one, That kind of makes MC a bit of a tech entrepreneur doesn’t it? The fact it grew into Broadcast, and Yahoo drank the koolaid took some skill.
Now about Devon……..
The way I read the story, Mark was brought in after all of this technical stuff was already in place.
“When it was time to go public they brought on Mark Cuban; Wagner’s college roommate.”
http://en.wikip...i/Broadcast.com
I’ve known Mark for 20+ years through multiple start ups, including Micro Solutions and Audionet/Broadcast, he’s the real deal — a great entrepreneur.
If Yahoo screwed it up after purchase, don’t blame Mark.
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