![]() ![]() Instead of attending high school for his senior year, he enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Pittsburgh, where he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. At age 16, Cuban took advantage of a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike by running newspapers from Cleveland to Pittsburgh. Some years later, he earned money by selling stamps and coins. He sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes. Ĭuban first ventured into business at age 12. His maternal grandparents were Romanian Jewish immigrants, according to Mark's brother Brian, though Mark has claimed their maternal grandmother was Lithuanian. ![]() His paternal grandfather changed the surname from "Chabenisky" to "Cuban" after his family emigrated from Russia through Ellis Island. Cuban described his mother, Shirley, as someone with "a different job or different career goal every other week." Ĭuban is Jewish, and grew up in Mount Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in a Jewish working-class family. ![]() His father, Norton Cuban, was an automobile upholsterer. Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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