Before becoming a billionaire entrepreneur and investor, Mark Cuban lived with five roommates in a 3-bedroom apartment and shopped for groceries at midnight to save money.
And now, he’s just revealed that being thrifty was one of the key drivers to building his first business.
When a user online asked his best investment of all time, The Shark Tank star replied it was “living like a student long after college so that I could start my business.”
It’s not the first time the Mavericks owner has admitted he penny-pinched his way to wealth. In his previous “ Success and Motivation ” blog series, Cuban shared his most frugal habits that shaped him into the business owner he is today.
Some of those habits included driving $200 cars (one of which had a hole in the floorboard), sleepi