I have to have some respect for anyone that took Yahoo for USD 5.7 billion. But I also don't think that makes him any more savvy at business than anyone else. He was in the right place at exactly the right time.
I have no opinion of him. I never met him, know almost nothing about him, and as far as I know he's never had a material impact on me or the people/things I care about.
Sorry, I don't know him and have never met him. Never even went to a Mavericks game.
I don't even know if a comparable number of positive or negative comments are to be expected.
But he does seem as real a billionaire as you can get, and pretty level-headed when I see him on Shark Tank.
Something really impressive when I found out about it was the dedication to fighting for lowered prescription drug prices. This has truly been completely impossible forever up until he took some action, looks like no one with adequate wherewithal made any effort before. It may not be very completely possible yet, but it's surely less-impossible now and that's a move in the right direction.
I guess I do kind of favor it a bit when people make the impossible possible.
Would Cuban be able to afford an NBA team without his previous Yahoo winnings?
In the US we have an incredibly large number of "self made" millionaire/billionaires that had a huge tailwind. Even our most famous entrepreneurs like Gates.
But we as Americans love that myth, because we think it can (and eventually will) happen to us as well. When you see working class people support politicians and policies that create benefits only for the wealthy, this is why.
I think a thing that can be said about opportunity in the US is that you really can change your socioeconomic status. You can be born dirt poor and be a billionaire by the end of your life.
It's very unlikely, but it is possible. What's not possible is to do it all by yourself, or without a large amount of support from society at large.
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