Everyone loves him and wants to work with him because compared to other sharks, this

每個人都喜歡他，想和他一起工作，因為和其他鯊魚相比，這個... ...

guy has more money than you can imagine.

這傢伙有更多的錢 比你能想象。

Moreover, having him on board can be a big advantage.

此外，有他的加入也是一大優勢。

However, if you take a look at how exactly he made his billions, you will realize that

然而，如果你看看他到底是怎麼賺到十億的，你就會發現

he got pretty lucky.

他得到了相當幸運。

I am not really a big believer in luck, but when it comes to Mark Cuban, it's fascinating.

我並不太相信運氣，但說到馬克-庫班，就很吸引人。

That's probably why he said: “ to become a billionaire, you have got to get lucky.

這可能就是為什麼他說，"要想成為億萬富翁，你必須要走運。

But a multi-millionaire?

但百萬富翁？

No problem!

沒問題！

Cuban had an entrepreneurial spirit since the beginning.

古巴人自始至終都有一種創業精神。

He started selling garbage bags at the age of 12 to pay for a pair of basketball sneakers.

他在12歲時開始賣垃圾袋，以支付一雙籃球運動鞋的費用。

Taught disco dancing and ended up opening his bar back then when he was in university.

教跳迪斯科舞，最後在大學的時候就開了自己的酒吧。

Nonetheless, the first real business that he started was MicroSolutions after getting

儘管如此，他在獲得了 "微解決方案 "之後，開始了第一個真正意義上的創業。

fired twice.

發射了兩次。

Micro solutions was a computer-based company, they resold products, software and were pc

微解決方案是一家以計算機為基礎的公司，他們轉售產品，軟件和是PC。

consultants.

顧問。

In 7 years, Cuban grew the company to 30 million dollars in revenue and sold it for a total

7年時間，庫班將公司發展到3000萬美元的收入，並以總

sum of 6 million dollars to ComputerServe which was a bigger computer company.

600萬美元的款項給了一家更大的電腦公司ComputerServe。

That was basically all that Mark wanted, at least at that time, because he took that money

至少在那個時候，馬克想要的基本就是這些，因為他拿了這些錢。

and retired.

和退休。

He bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and lived the life of a party boy, traveling

他買了一張美國航空公司的終身通票，過著派對男孩的生活，旅行。

to every country he ever could.

到每個國家，他都能。

Five years later, he probably got bored and wanted to get back in the game.

五年後，他可能覺得無聊了，想重操舊業。

So, together with his friend, they founded AudioNet in 1995.

於是，和朋友一起在1995年成立了AudioNet。

The idea behind it was to broadcast sports events and radio shows on the internet so

背後的想法是在互聯網上播放體育賽事和廣播節目，這樣一來。

that everyone could watch them from anywhere in the world.

每個人都可以從世界任何地方觀看它們。

Soon later they realized, they can broadcast anything from presidential nominating conventions

很快他們就意識到，他們可以轉播總統提名大會的任何東西

to Victoria Secret fashion shows.

到維多利亞祕密時裝秀。

That's why in 1998 they renamed it to broadcast.com which gave a better idea of what the company

這就是為什麼1998年他們將其更名為broadcast.com的原因，這讓人們更好地瞭解公司的情況。

represented.

代表：

Company's name is the first thing people notice, so it is essential to get it right.

公司的名字是人們最先注意到的，所以一定要取好名字。

However, today when you want to register your domain, its most probably taken because people

然而，今天，當你想註冊你的域名，它很可能採取，因為人

start websites every single day all around the world.

全世界每天都在創辦網站。

That's why I use hover, with over 400 domain extensions, you will most certainly find what

這就是為什麼我用懸浮，有400多個域名擴展，你一定能找到所

you are looking for, especially since they made the process of registering a domain so

特別是他們在註冊域名的過程中，使

simple that you can do it with few easy clicks.

簡單到你可以通過幾個簡單的點擊來完成。

Anyways, more on that later.

總之，以後再說吧。

Remember, it was all during the period of the dot-com bubble when most of these tech

記得，那都是在網絡保麗龍時期，當時這些科技公司大多

companies were hyped and overpriced.

公司被炒作，價格過高。

People simply dumped money into every crap that came out thinking that it's going to

人們只是把錢傾注到每一個垃圾中，以為這樣就可以了。

become the next multi-billion dollar company.

成為下一個價值數十億美元的公司。

All you needed to do is to launch a website, do some fancy things and you would have investors

你需要做的就是推出一個網站，做一些花哨的事情，你就會有投資者

knocking into your door.

敲進你的門。

That was precisely the moment when broadcast.com went public.

這正是廣播網上市的時刻。

The stock price soared 250% on its first day of trading, and the company was worth a billion

股價上市首日暴漲250%，公司價值10億元

dollar, bring up Cuban's net worth to 300 Million dollars.

美元，使古巴人的淨資產達到3億美。

It seems like they hit the lottery, but that was just the beginning.

他們好像中了彩票，但這只是個開始。

Because a year later just before the dot-com bubble burst and the entire market crashed.

因為一年後就在網絡保麗龍破滅前，整個市場崩潰了。

When dozens if not hundreds of internet companies went bankrupt, Yahoo which was the internet

當幾十家甚至上百家互聯網公司破產的時候，雅虎這才是互聯網的

giant at its time as Facebook is today suddenly decided to acquire broadcast.com for 5.7 billion

巨頭的時候，因為Facebook是今天突然決定以57億收購廣播網。

dollars in stocks.

美元的股票。

It was the largest single e-commerce transaction, increasing Cuban's net worth to 1.7 billion

這是最大的單筆電商交易，使古巴的淨資產增加到17億。

dollars.

美元。

As Cuban himself said: we hit the lottery twice!

正如古巴人自己所說：我們中了兩次彩票!

Because he realized that, wait for a second, its a bubble, therefore, the market is going

因為他意識到，等一下，它是一個保麗龍，是以，市場要去

to crash soon.

很快就會崩潰。

So he quickly sold his Yahoo shares and diversified his wealth into many different businesses,

於是，他迅速賣掉了自己的雅虎股票，將自己的財富分散到許多不同的業務中。

and that's precisely when the market went down.

而這正是市場下跌的時候。

And guess what happened to broadcast.com.

你猜廣播網怎麼了？

Exactly, It went bankrupt, and Yahoo shut it down in 2002.

沒錯，它破產了，雅虎在2002年就關閉了它。

It's easy to look back and criticize Yahoo for such a bad acquisition, but the internet

回過頭來責備雅虎如此糟糕的收購很容易，但互聯網的

was at its initial state, and it was tough to predict which companies will service.

處於初始狀態，很難預測哪些公司會服務。

Even things such as registering a domain or starting a website were pretty tricky.

甚至連註冊域名、開辦網站這樣的事情都相當棘手。

However, today with HOVER who gladly sponsored this video, you can do it easily in a few

不過，今天有了HOVER欣然贊助的這段視頻，你可以輕鬆地在幾秒鐘內完成。

minutes.

分鐘。

Furthermore, with such a great customer support team, you will never get confused with anything,

此外，有如此優秀的客服團隊，您絕不會有任何困惑。

and the good news is that - you get 10%off using the link hover.com/proactivethinker.

好消息是--您使用鏈接hover.com/proactivethinker獲得10%的折扣。

Make sure you give them a try, that will really help the channel.

一定要試一試，這樣才能真正幫助管道。

Thanks for watching and I will catch you in the next one.

謝謝你的觀看，下期再見。