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Before earning billions, Mark Cuban lived with five roommates and had no bed of his own in a cramped three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n
Cuban disclosed in an X post<\/a> earlier this week that he lived in a 1,352-square-foot apartment for two years. He was \u201cthe last one in\u201d to the arrangement, so he got the floor to sleep on and \u201ca spot in the corner\u201d of a bedroom to put his belongings.<\/p>\n Cuban said that he honestly \u201cdidn\u2019t mind living with 5 roommates.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe all were in the same boat,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI moved in when I was 24. Lived there or across the way for 2 years before I only needed one roommate.\u201d<\/p>\n He acknowledged that not everyone would be content with the living arrangements.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it\u2019s not the lifestyle for you. So be it,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIf you don\u2019t think just getting any job to get started is the right career choice for you. Do what you think is right. I don\u2019t care and I don\u2019t judge.\u201d<\/p>\n The price of renting the apartment was $2,388, the \u201csame in 2026 dollars\u201d as when Cuban lived there. Split six ways, each person was paying about $400 for rent.<\/p>\n The future billionaire\u2019s early living situation had an apt nickname to match.\u201cI didn\u2019t say I was living in a dream apartment,\u201d he wrote. \u201cEveryone called it the Hell Hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n Cuban regularly shares career advice on X, encouraging young workers to keep learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n In June, Cuban urged recent graduates to consider small- and medium-sized businesses rather than focus on big companies. His reasoning was that smaller companies may need help putting AI to work, giving newcomers a chance to make an immediate, outsized contribution to their workplaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cuban said that new hires could teach those businesses how to use AI agents to handle processes they previously lacked the time or money to tackle. \u201cEntrepreneurial companies will love the value you add,\u201d Cuban wrote.<\/p>\n Cuban became a millionaire in 1990, at age 32, when he sold his computer consulting business, MicroSolutions, to CompuServe for $6 million. He then co-founded AudioNet, which later became Broadcast.com. Yahoo acquired the company for $5.7 billion in 1999, making Cuban a billionaire at age 40.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index<\/a>, the 68-year-old Cuban is now one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of $10.7 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cuban has also previously discussed keeping his personal life relatively ordinary despite his wealth. In a 2023 interview on The Really Good Podcast<\/em><\/a>, he said he preferred doing chores and driving himself to hiring people for everything.<\/p>\n \u201cI just try to be the same person, I mean, as I was when I was poor, middle, and rich,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Before earning billions, Mark Cuban lived with five roommates and had no bed of his own in a cramped three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\nCuban offers other advice for early-career professionals<\/h2>\n
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