Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban is an extremely wealthy man, but where does he rank? Forbes has provided an answer.
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According to the outlet, Cuban has an estimated net worth of $6 billion as of press time. This puts him 663rd in the world. For comparison, he ranks in the same realm as Bill Haslam (gas stations), Wolfgang Hertz (coffee), Trevor Rees-Jones (oil and gas), and Robert Hale Jr. (telecom).
Tesla founder Elon Musk still tops the list at $827.2 billion. Just behind him in a distant second is Google's Larry Page at $240.4 billion.
Cuban made much of his early money on a sale of the video portal he co-founded, Broadcast.com. The Indiana alum formed the company in 1995 with Todd Wagner. They then sold it to Yahoo in 1999 for a whopping $5.7 billion.
Long before he sold Broadcast.com, he achieved success with a different startup. He created MicroSolutions, a software startup, in the 1980s. He sold this product, which he has since compared to the Slack workspace platform, to CompuServe for $6 million.
The businessman has continued to be heavily involved in a variety of industries. He founded — and invested in — multiple startups throughout the early 2000s. This continued well after the turn of the decade as he became an investor on the long-running TV show Shark Tank.
Of course, millions of people know Cuban for his presence in the NBA. Back in 2000, he purchased a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks from H. Ross Perot Jr. He held onto this majority ownership for more than two decades as the Mavericks made the playoffs 17 times and won the NBA Finals in 2010-11.
Cuban is no longer the majority owner of the Mavericks. He sold controlling interest of the team in November 2023 for approximately $2 billion (pre-tax). He remains a minority owner.
