Mark Cuban

that network that we had built, and then going to corporations and saying, look, it's 1996, 97, 98, and to communicate with your worldwide employees, what they would do is they would go to an auditorium that had a satellite uplink, and then they would have people go to theaters or ballrooms and hotels that had satellite downlinks, and they would broadcast the product introductions, whatever.

that network that we had built, and then going to corporations and saying, look, it's 1996, 97, 98, and to communicate with your worldwide employees, what they would do is they would go to an auditorium that had a satellite uplink, and then they would have people go to theaters or ballrooms and hotels that had satellite downlinks, and they would broadcast the product introductions, whatever.

And so we said to them, look, you're paying millions of dollars to reach all your employees when you can do it. Pay us a half a million dollars and we'll do it just on their PCs at work. So we did, you know, when Intel announced the P90 PC, we, you know, charged them $2 million or whatever to do that. When Motorola announced a new phone or a new product, we would charge them.

And so we said to them, look, you're paying millions of dollars to reach all your employees when you can do it. Pay us a half a million dollars and we'll do it just on their PCs at work. So we did, you know, when Intel announced the P90 PC, we, you know, charged them $2 million or whatever to do that. When Motorola announced a new phone or a new product, we would charge them.

And so we said to them, look, you're paying millions of dollars to reach all your employees when you can do it. Pay us a half a million dollars and we'll do it just on their PCs at work. So we did, you know, when Intel announced the P90 PC, we, you know, charged them $2 million or whatever to do that. When Motorola announced a new phone or a new product, we would charge them.

And so we used the consumer side to do a proof of concept for the network. And then we would take that product knowledge and go to corporations, and that's how we made our revenue. And there was some selling there with the corporations. Yeah, a lot of selling there, but we were saving them so much money, and they were technology companies.

And so we used the consumer side to do a proof of concept for the network. And then we would take that product knowledge and go to corporations, and that's how we made our revenue. And there was some selling there with the corporations. Yeah, a lot of selling there, but we were saving them so much money, and they were technology companies.

And so we used the consumer side to do a proof of concept for the network. And then we would take that product knowledge and go to corporations, and that's how we made our revenue. And there was some selling there with the corporations. Yeah, a lot of selling there, but we were saving them so much money, and they were technology companies.

They wanted to be perceived as being leading edge, and so it was win-win.

They wanted to be perceived as being leading edge, and so it was win-win.

They wanted to be perceived as being leading edge, and so it was win-win.

I did all the technology, and then we hired engineer after engineer after engineer to implement it. Wow. Yeah. From putting together a multicast network to software to... just all these different things. Was this like a scary thing? It's terrifying, right?

I did all the technology, and then we hired engineer after engineer after engineer to implement it. Wow. Yeah. From putting together a multicast network to software to... just all these different things. Was this like a scary thing? It's terrifying, right?

I did all the technology, and then we hired engineer after engineer after engineer to implement it. Wow. Yeah. From putting together a multicast network to software to... just all these different things. Was this like a scary thing? It's terrifying, right?

Because as we were growing, trying to keep up the scale and literally we're buying off the shelf PCs and then, you know, server cards as the technology advanced and hard drives and things would fail. And we would have to, you know, we didn't have machine learning back then to do an analysis of, you know, how to distribute server resources. So, you know, like there was...

Because as we were growing, trying to keep up the scale and literally we're buying off the shelf PCs and then, you know, server cards as the technology advanced and hard drives and things would fail. And we would have to, you know, we didn't have machine learning back then to do an analysis of, you know, how to distribute server resources. So, you know, like there was...

Because as we were growing, trying to keep up the scale and literally we're buying off the shelf PCs and then, you know, server cards as the technology advanced and hard drives and things would fail. And we would have to, you know, we didn't have machine learning back then to do an analysis of, you know, how to distribute server resources. So, you know, like there was...

There was a time when Bill Clinton and all the Monica Lewinsky stuff happened. They released the audio of their interviews of him or something like that, right? And we literally, I knew at that point in time when that was released, everybody at work was going to want to listen to it, right? So we had to take down servers that were doing Chicago Cubs baseball, right?

There was a time when Bill Clinton and all the Monica Lewinsky stuff happened. They released the audio of their interviews of him or something like that, right? And we literally, I knew at that point in time when that was released, everybody at work was going to want to listen to it, right? So we had to take down servers that were doing Chicago Cubs baseball, right?

There was a time when Bill Clinton and all the Monica Lewinsky stuff happened. They released the audio of their interviews of him or something like that, right? And we literally, I knew at that point in time when that was released, everybody at work was going to want to listen to it, right? So we had to take down servers that were doing Chicago Cubs baseball, right?