Re: Cuban, the computer guy

[Joe Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

Francis Hsu wrote:

> Another quote that made me laugh:
> "I built a little [Microsoft] Excel spreadsheet," Cuban said, "and I
> starting plugging in players and calling different teams saying, 'This fits
> and that fits, this works and this works. I heard that you were looking for
> this guy and you were looking for this guy.' And all the pieces fell into
> place." - Mark Cuban, Mavericks owner
> Ref URL:
> http://www.startext.net/news/doc/1047/1:MAVERICKS41/1:MAVERICKS410817100.html
>
> Francis

    He probably got 3 million in MSFT shares from Bill Gates for that plug.

    Maybe Mark Cuban just got lucky during the "blow-the-dot-out-my-ass.com"
craze, but he is really young and he's a billionaire. As Elvis Costello says:
"money talks, and its persuasive."

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