When Mark Cuban started the company that made him a millionaire, he was nearly at rock bottom — and he doesn’t think that was a coincidence.
“If you’ve got nothing, it’s the perfect time to start a business,” Cuban told the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” in an episode that aired last year.
He cited himself as proof: He’d recently been fired from his job at a computer software store and was sleeping on the floor of a three-bedroom apartment with six roommates when he launched his first startup, a tech company called MicroSolutions, in 1983.
“I couldn’t go any lower,” said Cuban, now 66. “There was no downside for me starting a business.”
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After roughly seven years — during which a secretary allegedly almost bankrupted the company, and Cuban himself, with forged checks — Cuban sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe for …