Mark Cuban
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Imagine growing up when I grew up with the last name like Cuban.
Like, what do you think my nickname was when I was a little kid?
Heshy Teshowitz.
Yeah.
That, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Everybody called me Castro, like, up until I was, like, 17 years old.
I'd seen something about that.
Yeah, I knew he played baseball.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, right?
Right?
No, when I go to, before anybody knew who I was, when I would go to Miami, it was always, are you?
Are you?
Are you?
I'm into genealogy, so I'll give you that.
So my great, great, great, however many generations back were in Tsarist Russia, right?
And back then your name was like Igor Egorovich or something like that, right?
But they wanted to know who the Jews were.
And so they told them they had to have a last name.