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Fortune
Emma Burleigh

Mark Cuban didn’t take vacations for nearly a decade—the billionaire had 5 roommates and worked weekends to turn his career around after getting fired

Mark Cuban (Credit: Julia Beverly / Getty Images)
  • Billionaire investor Mark Cuban didn’t take a vacation for seven years when he first built the $30 million-a-year tech company MicroSolutions. At the time, he was “broke as f-ck,” recently fired and living with five men in a three-bedroom apartment. But working hard at a young age paid off. Cuban is today worth $5.7 billion—and it’s a work philosophy he now recommends.

Most people in their 20s already have their weekends booked out for bar hopping and hanging with friends, but one CEO lived a very different life in his youth. When billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban launched his first technology company at just 24, trips to Bora Bora weren’t on the table.

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