From cnbc.com
Selling a company for billions of dollars didn’t immediately upgrade Mark Cuban’s life. In fact, the longtime entrepreneur, investor and “Shark Tank” star found himself in the middle seat of an airplane while going to Las Vegas to celebrate his windfall. “When I sold my company for billions of dollars, to go and celebrate, I was on a Southwest flight,” Cuban told ABC News earlier this year. “I was in the center seat facing the wrong way on the plane thinking, ‘This is just perfect.’” In 1999, Cuban and his Broadcast.com co-founders sold their company to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in stock. Instead of … (full story)