Before he was on 'Shark Tank,' Mark Cuban tried his hand at acting. (via CNBCMakeIt)
That's when the newly minted millionaire decided to switch things up. "I started trading technology stocks — I did so well I turned that into a hedge fund and almost immediately sold that," he said on an episode of GQ's YouTube series
in which he went undercover on the internet and responded to real comments from Twitter, Reddit, Quora and YouTube.In LA, he signed up for acting classes as a way to meet people but decided to put his new skills to test and started auditioning for commercials. "I had to put the Taco Bell hat on and just act stupid," he recalled. "I did some Ford commercials.
Hoffman, who would go on to be nominated for four Academy Awards throughout his career, was "mis-cast," Cuban joked. "I was right for the role." Cuban's acting stint didn't last long. A few years after the 1996 audition, he co-founded a company called Audionet, which became Broadcast.com. During the dotcom boom, it grew to over 300 employees and in 1999Cuban, who now stars on "Shark Tank" and owns the Dallas Mavericks, never made it in Hollywood, but
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