Reply #19: This Guy Is Truely Eccentric... [View All]

[KharmaTrain]

Over a decade ago, I was part of a group that did work with Cuban...back before he got his first billions. He was pushing his first product, Real Audio, and was real aggresive. For those who worked with him, he'd do anything to keep you happy but screw around with him and there was hell to pay. Thus he made as many friends and enemies...no middle ground with the guy and by his own admission a lot of what happened to him was by being very lucky.

He cashed out right before the 2000 tech bubble burst and Real Audio was already fading as MP3 was starting to take hold...many, at the time, hinted, he both got inside scoops and then helped tank his old company to push business to his new ventures. His personality pisses off a lot of the "establishment" cause he doesn't play their games...to be more specific, there are no honor among theives, even if the theives think there is.

I have mixed feelings about the guy. Personally he's charming as all hell...into a lot of things from music to sports...but in the business world, he's a shark and methinks this suit is the result of one of these deals going bad. There weren't criminal charges brought, but the headlines don't specify...and in this day of "hang the rich", he's not gonna have many friends in the media...for many he's already guilty.

Cheers...