• yeahiknow3@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    This guy became a billionaire during the dot com bubble by tricking Yahoo into buying his fake website. I’m not aware if he’s ever actually had a job.

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      8 days ago

      Seems like he was a bartender before working as a software salesman, then founding a competing software sales company which he sold.

      Broadcast.com was definitely a bad buy for Yahoo, so he lucked into becoming a billionaire off of that, but calling it a fake website might be overstating it - there seems to have been some actual real-time media technology innovation going on there.

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        8 days ago

        It was a comically malfunctional unmonetized “college basketball radio” website (as far as I remember). No way it is was worth jack shit, let alone the hundreds of millions that Yahoo got swindled into paying.

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    8 days ago

    Get a job that will require government assistance to live if you wanna be a trillionaire, ya idiots!

    Then all you do is get a 6+ figure loan from your dad, ya moron!

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      7 days ago

      Bezos has the perfect job. Cuban is saying think like Bezos by not having his job. Have a shit job where you’re the exploited, then trust me bro, you’ll get to exploit later.