3 times Mark Cuban failed before becoming a billionaire: 'You only gotta be right once.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
"No one really asks me how it turned out. It was great until we got busted for letting a 16-year-old win a wet T-shirt contest. ," he wrote in "How to Win at the Sport of Business."from three straight jobs," he said on an episode of ABC's "Shark Tank."
At 22, Cuban moved back to his hometown, Pittsburgh, got a job at Mellon Bank and ultimately quit because he didn't like the CEO, he wrote in a piece forin 2013. He also worked for a TV repair franchise Tronics 2000, but that job didn't work out either. Then Cuban moved to Texas and tried to start a business selling powdered milk, which failed. After, Cuban landed a sales gig at computer company Your Business Software, butfor closing a deal without approval from the CEO . But getting fired led him to start his own computer systems company, MicroSolutions.
While living in Dallas, Cuban slept on the floor of a three-bedroom apartment where he lived with six other guys. He often came home to the lights turned off and he had his credit cards cut as he struggled to make ends meet, he said during an"No one really asks me about my adventures working for Mellon Bank, or Tronics 2000, or trying to start a business selling powdered milk ," he wrote in his book "How to Win at the Sport of Business.
"They don't ask me about getting fired from my job at Your Business Software for wanting to close a sale rather than open up the store. No one ever asks me about what it was like when I started MicroSolutions or how I used to count the months I was in business, hoping to outlast my previous endeavors and make this one a success.""It doesn't matter how many times you strike out," he wrote in his book. "To be a success, you only have to be right once.
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