Mark Cuban is a billionaire entrepreneur, television personality, media proprietor, and investor, At age 16, Cuban took advantage of a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike by running newspapers from Cleveland to Pittsburgh.Instead of attending high school for his senior year, he enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Pittsburgh, where he joined the Pi Lambda Phi International fraternity.

Cuban's net worth is estimated to be $4.3 billion, according to Forbes and ranked #177 on the 2020 Forbes 400 list. Mark Cuban is a named inventor of 11 patent families and 23 distinct patent publications for his inventions. He is the co-owner of 2929 Entertainment and chairman of AXS TV. He is also one of the main "shark" investors on the ABC reality television series, Shark Tank. On January 4, 2000, Cuban purchased the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. In the 20 years before Cuban bought the team, the Mavericks won only 40% of their games and had a playoff record of 21–32. In the 10 years following, the team won 69 percent of their regular season games and reached the playoffs in each of those seasons except for one. The Mavs earned their first trip to the NBA Finals in 2006 under Cuban, and eventually an NBA title in 2011.  

Cuban likes to sit alongside fans while donning team jerseys. He is very dedicated person both to his buisness and teams. In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuban posted an offer on LinkedIn to small business owners who had questions about what to do in order to survive the economic downturn being caused by the pandemic. He said people could ask him anything, but that his preference was "going to be helping small biz trying to avoid layoffs and hourly reductions." There were more than 10,000 comments in response to his offer