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Old 09-23-2004, 09:47 PM  
Mogulman
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Originally posted by BRISK
I think they both got lucky.

If Yahoo hadn't been foolish enough to pay $5.7 Billion for Broadcast.com, Cuban would still be a millionaire, but not a billionaire. His own efforts made him a millionaire, but luck made him a billionaire.

Oh, not quite my friend. Cuban didn't just handed that money. He got handed stock (not valued that high, mind you) and he figured out a way to sell it without getting raped on taxes.

I think everyone sitting on a pile of cash has a little luck, but, of all the billionaires that I know about, I'll give Mark Cuban mad props for finding/calculating a way to make it happen. He's no silver spoon story in my opinion.
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