Biography of Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban co-founded broadcast.com in 1995 with a mission to pioneer the next wave of the Internet, changing it from a static, text-based medium into a dynamic, multimedia-rich broadcast medium. Cuban’s visionary leadership has guided broadcast.com to becoming the leading destination for audio and video on the Internet. In August 1999, broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo!, and Cuban continues to lead the division as Yahoo! Broadcast Services.

Since the company’s inception, Cuban has focused on identifying new opportunities in the marketplace and building relationships with leading content providers to ensure broadcast.coms first-mover advantage. Cuban has also created new revenue opportunities for the sales force, and works with the companys technology partners, including Microsoft, RealNetworks and Intel, to create concepts and products to advance the streaming media industry.

In 1983, Cuban founded MicroSolutions and developed it into one of the leading systems integration firms in the U.S. MicroSolutions was ranked in the top 20 of the LAN 100 and included in Inc. Magazines list of the top 500 fastest growing privately held companies. Cuban sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe in 1990 and later became president of Radical Computing, a venture capital and investment company specializing in high technology companies.

Cuban has a charismatic style and in-depth knowledge of the entire technology industry. He has spoken at many leading industry events, including Comdex, Internet World, NAB/Multimedia World, Networld/Interop and conferences put on by BusinessWeek and Jupiter Communications. He has appeared on CNBC and CNN numerous times, and been featured in leading business publications including Forbes, Business Week, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.