Ask HN: As Billionaires Go, What Do You Think About Mark Cuban?
One of the interesting things would be if someone has some first-hand anecdotes.
Or how he compares to other billionaires, tech or not.
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I don't even know if a comparable number of positive or negative comments are to be expected.
But he does seem as real a billionaire as you can get, and pretty level-headed when I see him on Shark Tank.
Something really impressive when I found out about it was the dedication to fighting for lowered prescription drug prices. This has truly been completely impossible forever up until he took some action, looks like no one with adequate wherewithal made any effort before. It may not be very completely possible yet, but it's surely less-impossible now and that's a move in the right direction.
I guess I do kind of favor it a bit when people make the impossible possible.
In the US we have an incredibly large number of "self made" millionaire/billionaires that had a huge tailwind. Even our most famous entrepreneurs like Gates.
I think a thing that can be said about opportunity in the US is that you really can change your socioeconomic status. You can be born dirt poor and be a billionaire by the end of your life.
It's very unlikely, but it is possible. What's not possible is to do it all by yourself, or without a large amount of support from society at large.