Mark Cuban had $82,000 stolen from his first company and it was 'the best thing that ever happened to us' (via CNBCMakeIt)
and shared a $600-a-month three-bedroom apartment with five other guys. Cuban slept on either the floor or couch."I was 24 at the time and we had $84,000 in the bank," he recalls on anHe was young and confident: "We had it all set up. I thought I used everything I learned at Indiana Business School."
According to Cuban, his receptionist at the time didn't send the company's checks to vendors. Instead, she forged the checks using correction fluid and a typewriter: "[She] whites it out, puts her name on it, takes it to the bank, the bank cashes it. So, within one day, we went from having $84,000 in the bank to having $2,000 in the bank.""It was f----- up," he says, "but the best thing that ever happened to us because it made us get our s--- together.
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