What is Microsolutions, what do they do and who bought it and why?

Mark Cuban says he once drunk-dialed American Airlines and bought lifetime unlimited first class seats for $125,000 "I just sold MicroSolutions, I walked away with a few million dollars. My buddies and I going out, just got destroyed" "I call American Airlines slurring on words, do you guys sell lifetime passes? The lady said let me connect you to the AAirpass department" "It was $125,000, and then I upgraded it, unlimited miles for me and somebody else for the rest of my life" x.com/katsuxbt/status/206666…

Mark Cuban says he once drunk-dialed American Airlines and bought lifetime unlimited first class seats for $125,000 "I just sold MicroSolutions, I walked away with a few million dollars. My buddies and I going out, just got destroyed" "I call American Airlines slurring on words, do you guys sell lifetime passes? The lady said let me connect you to the AAirpass department" "It was $125,000, and then I upgraded it, unlimited miles for me and somebody else for the rest of my life"

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Mark Cuban says he gave millions of dollars to employees after selling his company because he believed they earned it. Shannon Sharpe: “When you sold the company, it was reported you gave employees $35 million in bonuses. Why?” Mark Cuban: “It ended up being a lot more than that.” “I’m not there without them.” “I did it with my first company, MicroSolutions. We had 80 employees and they all got paid.” “I did it again with Broadcast .com.” “Out of 330 employees, 300 became millionaires.” “I wanted to do the same thing with the Mavericks.” “They were there for me the whole time.” “For the people who had been there 20 years or more, it was life-changing money.”

مارك كوبان: أردت أن أجني ما يكفي من المال حتى لا أكون مضطرًا للرد على أحد وأعيش حياتي بالطريقة التي أريدها يؤمن رجل الأعمال والملياردير مارك كوبان بأن الوقت هو أهم أصل في حياة الإنسان، وهي فكرة تعود إلى طفولته ونصيحة والده له. نشأ كوبان وهو يرى والده يعمل لساعات طويلة، وهو ما جعله يدرك مبكرًا أهمية امتلاك مسار مهني يمنح الإنسان حرية التحكم في وقته. قال كوبان: "أردت أن أجني ما يكفي من المال حتى لا أكون مضطرًا للرد على أحد.. أريد أن أتحكم في جدولي وأعيش حياتي بالطريقة التي أريدها." بدأ مسيرته بأعمال صغيرة مثل بيع أكياس القمامة والطوابع، ثم قدّم دروسًا في الجامعة لتمويل خطواته الأولى في عالم الأعمال. لاحقًا أسس شركته الأولى MicroSolutions وباعها مقابل 6 ملايين دولار، ثم حقق نجاحًا ضخمًا ببيع Broadcast.com لشركة Yahoo مقابل 5.7 مليار دولار. اليوم يدير استثماراته وأعماله المختلفة مع تركيز واضح على تنظيم وقته، من خلال تقليل المشتتات والاعتماد على البريد الإلكتروني. وتبقى رسالته الأساسية: إدارة الوقت بوعي هي أساس بناء حياة مهنية وحرة.

🎉💾Finally got this absolute gem from the early 90s working again! This is a MicroSolutions Backpack model 150200 — an external hard drive that connects to your IBM PC/XT/AT via parallel port (yes, really😄). Inside is a TEAC SD-3240-30-U 233 MB HDD. #RetroComputing #IBMPC

Mark Cuban reveals an employee stole $82,000 and was never found “My first company MicroSolutions, there was a lady Renee Hardy. She was our receptionist and she had one job, take our payables for our vendors put it in an envelope and take it to the post office” “I’ll never forget getting a call from the bank, ‘Sir this woman just came through the drive thru and the checks were whited out and she wrote her name in it’” “I’m like, ‘You didn’t let her cash it? Well of course we did we’re a bank Sir’” “She took $82,000 of the $84,000 that we had and we were flat broke... It’s been years and no one's found her since. She probably changed her name”

Mark Cuban reveals how he became a billionaire and explains why luck played a massive role "My first company MicroSolutions I started because I got fired from a job. Built it, built it, built it, didn't take a vacation for like seven years. Sold it. But I learned all about networking and technology and programming. Then I took some time off, bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines, just traveled and partied like a rock star." "My buddy from college comes along and says there's got to be a way we can put sports on the internet. There has to be. This is like 94, 95. Streaming didn't exist then. The next day streaming existed. If the internet stock market hadn't been this big bubble who knows, but when it went parabolic it was just whoof. We go public, broadcast(.)com, first streaming company ever. Largest IPO in the history of the stock market at the time. We sold it for $5.7B in Yahoo stock." "Getting 5.7 in Yahoo stock, if the internet stock market crashes all that goes to hell too. So the better part of that story is after we sold I did a options strategy where I sell calls and buy puts on the stock and that protected me when the whole internet stock market cratered. That part was skill. But the fact that the whole internet stock market went crazy, if I'd been born three years earlier or five years later it might not have happened. I wouldn't be sitting here."

مارك كوبان حوّل 91% من موظفيه إلى مليونيرات عند بيع شركة بقيمة 5.7 مليار دولار مارك كوبان تجاوز فكرة الاكتفاء ببناء ثروته من بيع شركاته، وشارك موظفيه جزءًا كبيرًا من نجاح تلك الصفقات. في منشورسابق له على منصة X، أوضح أنه في كل صفقة بيع لشركة كان يكافئ الموظفين الذين أمضوا أكثر من عام في العمل. وأوضح أنه كلما كانت عملية الاستحواذ أكبر، زادت المكافآت: فقد أصبح 300 من أصل 330 موظفًا (نحو 91%) في Broadcast.com مليونيرات عندما بيعت إلى Yahoo مقابل 5.7 مليار دولار في عام 1999. وفي صفقة بيع شركة MicroSolutions عام 1990 مقابل 6 ملايين دولار، خصص 20% من قيمة الصفقة لـ 80 موظفًا، بمتوسط يقارب 15 ألف دولار لكل موظف. وفي تجاربه اللاحقة، اعتمد النهج نفسه عند بيع شركة HDNet، وكذلك في عام 2023 عند تخليه عن حصته الأغلبية في فريق Dallas Mavericks، حيث تم توزيع أكثر من 35 مليون دولار على الموظفين القدامى. يرى كوبان أن من يساهم في بناء الشركة يستحق نصيبًا من عائد نجاحها، وهو ما انعكس في قراراته عبر سنوات مختلفة من مسيرته.

Mark Cuban reveals why he paid his employees $35 million after selling the Mavericks “I’m not there without them and I did it my first 2 companies with Microsolutions all 80 employees got paid” “With broadcast .com out of 330 employees 300 became millionaires” “They were there for me the whole time and for those who were there 20 years or more it was life changing money”

Mark Cuban gets up to 1,000 emails a day on three phones and answers every one of them himself. He refuses to hire help. He says he'd rather plow through them than sit in a single meeting. The math is on his side: a 30-minute meeting at Shopify costs the company up to $1,600. Add an executive to the invite and the same meeting crosses $2,000. When Shopify audited its own calendars in 2023, it killed 12,000 recurring meetings and estimated 322,000 work hours saved that year. Across America, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates pointless meetings drain roughly $37 billion a year out of US businesses. The brain science makes the bill worse. A study from Gloria Mark at UC Irvine measured how long it takes a person to fully refocus on real work after one interruption. The answer was 23 minutes and 15 seconds. Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index, built from anonymous data across millions of company accounts, found that office workers get pinged every two minutes during the workday. That works out to 275 interruptions a day. Bouncing between Slack, email, meetings, and the work you were actually hired to do can wipe out up to 40% of what you would have produced. Jeff Bezos figured this out a decade ago. At Amazon, he banned PowerPoint and made executives sit in silence reading a six-page memo before anyone was allowed to speak in the meeting. Cuban arrived at the same answer without writing it down as a rule. Email lets him reply on his own schedule, not yours. The inbox is also searchable, which is why he still has folders going back to his 1980s CompuServe days, the dial-up online service from before the consumer internet existed. Cuban sold his first company, MicroSolutions, to CompuServe for $6 million in 1990. Nine years later he sold Broadcast .com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. Forbes now puts his net worth at roughly $6 billion, with a 27% slice of the Dallas Mavericks left over from his 2023 majority sale. He spends about two seconds per email deciding whether to reply or delete. Most meeting invites would not survive that two-second test. The habit that looks like a billionaire's quirk is the same logic Bezos already wrote into Amazon's policy.

Sources for Part 2: SEC EDGAR, Broadcast.com Form S-1/A (history of net losses, $12.5M accumulated deficit, warning of continued operating losses) <sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…> CBS News (July 1998), IPO priced at $18, hit $74, closed $62.75, up 249%, record first day, $1B market cap <cbsnews.com/news/broadcastco…> D Magazine, Cuban’s own account of the largest first-day IPO jump in stock market history <dmagazine.com/publications/d…> Texas Monthly, the AudioNet origin, the spare bedroom, and the “$4,000 computer vs $6 radio” doubt <texasmonthly.com/articles/hi…> CNBC (2023), the Indiana basketball motivation, the ~$2M from MicroSolutions, and “people thought I was an idiot” <cnbc.com/2023/01/15/mark-cub…>

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Kast Founder Card ✅ Got an email shortly after posting this article (lol) that the founders card tier will be closed permanently on April 11th. I followed up on the article and got my own. This feels a bit like this story of Cuban. "After selling MicroSolutions $6 million, Cuban spent $125,000 on a lifetime pass from American Airlines" It will be either genius or $4,000 wasted and honestly, I have spent more for less in crypto. Cuban often referred to this story as his best deal. I got the card with a 20% discount, meaning I paid $4,000 for it. I received 10,000 Kast Points as credit for this purchase. Totalling my Kast point to 74,687 now, which after a small devaluation from 1 Kast = $0.1, now, shows in app as valued at $5,974 meaning 1 Kast = $0.76. Meaning, the expected rewards on TGE Q2/3 will cover this expense and I will have a limited founders card forever. Assuming, this time its different. Please dear finance gods 💳

Mark, this is survivorship bias dressed up as strategy. Your first company, MicroSolutions, didn’t magically grow. That was 1983. You hustled for distribution. Emails, media, appearances, constant visibility. That is distribution. You didn’t avoid it. You just didn’t pay cash for it. Most founders don’t have access to reporters, TV, or a personal brand that opens doors. So telling them “don’t pay for distribution” is basically telling them to stay invisible. Every company needs distribution. Full stop. PR is distribution Podcasts are distribution Influencers are distribution Paid ads are distribution It’s all the same game. Reach. The only difference is what you’re paying with: Money, time, or access You had access Most people don’t So they either pay for reach or they never get it This isn’t a product problem It’s a reach problem And without reach, nothing else matters

Microsolutions to be exact