Mark Cuban Explains How Luck Helped Turn Jeff Bezos And Mark Zuckerberg Into Billionaires — 'Something Good Has Got to Happen'
Yahoo Finance·2026-02-18 14:15

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban is one of the few billionaires who doesn't pretend it was all grit and genius. He's said it repeatedly: Luck plays a key role in building massive wealth. Speaking on computer scientist Lex Fridman's podcast, Cuban said that after years in entrepreneurship, he doesn't believe any business plan can guarantee billionaire status. He said if he had to start over, reaching $1 million would be doable, but becoming a billionaire is a different ballgame, where timing and trends have to alig ...