在成为亿万富翁企业家和投资人之前，马克·库班曾与五位室友合租一套三居室公寓，并为节省开支而在深夜采购食品杂货。
如今，他公开表示，正是这种节俭习惯，成为其创办首家企业的关键驱动力之一。
当被网友问及此生最成功的投资时，这位《创智赢家》节目明星回答道：“大学毕业多年，我仍保持学生时期的生活方式，旨在创办自己的企业。”
这位达拉斯独行侠队老板并非首次承认靠节俭积累财富。此前在“成功与动力”系列博文中，他就分享过塑造自己今日商业领袖地位的极度节俭习惯。
这些习惯包括：驾驶价值200美元的破旧汽车（其中一辆的车底板还破了个洞）、因无力承担卧室租金而睡在“沙发或地板上”、身着他为求职面试购买的两套聚酯纤维西装中的一套——两套总价99美元。
如今，库班的净资产约为60亿美元，住在达拉斯一套面积达2.4万平方英尺（约合2230平方米）的豪宅里。但你绝不会看到他挥霍金钱雇佣管家或私人司机，这位亿万富翁此前透露自己至今仍亲自动手洗衣服、驾车出行，并保持着与儿时朋友的往来。“无论贫穷、中产还是富裕，我竭力保持一贯本色。”他在《The Really Good Podcast》播客节目中说道。
《财富》杂志已联系库班寻求置评。
库班给Z世代的建议：从每份工作中学习，拥抱人工智能
库班的成功传奇仍在不断续写。32岁时，他以600万美元出售Microsolutions，随后联合创立Broadcast.com，最终以超50亿美元的股票对价将其售予雅虎。自2012年起，他持续参与美国广播公司（ABC）《创智赢家》节目录制直至今年。如今，库班专注于处方药企业Cost Plus Drugs的运营，并参与达拉斯独行侠队的联合管理。
他保持成功的秘诀在于持续学习。即便在20多岁时频繁更换工作——有些工作他觉得“难登大雅之堂”，不愿写进简历——但他仍将每份工作都视为学习机会。
“[我坚信]自己从事的每一份工作，本质上都是他人付费让我了解新行业的机会。我会尽可能投入时间，学习、研读所有能接触到的商业资料。过去，我常在图书馆里一待就是好几个小时，埋头研读商业书籍和杂志。”他此前在一篇旧博文中写道。
“我常沉迷于钻研一款新软件，废寝忘食，抬头看时间时以为才傍晚六七点，却发现已是凌晨一两点，时间飞逝。”
如今，库班希望Z世代能以同样的态度学习人工智能。今年三月，他甚至与MasterClass合作推出一款名为MasterClass on Call的聊天机器人，用户可向人工智能版库班咨询，获取复刻他成功经验的建议。
“倘若如今我年仅16岁、18岁、20岁或21岁，我定会将醒着的每一分钟都倾注于人工智能学习。”今年早些时候，库班在西南偏南（SXSW）盛会上表示，“甚至在入睡时，我也会听人工智能主题播客。”（*）
译者：中慧言-王芳
在成为亿万富翁企业家和投资人之前，马克·库班曾与五位室友合租一套三居室公寓，并为节省开支而在深夜采购食品杂货。
如今，他公开表示，正是这种节俭习惯，成为其创办首家企业的关键驱动力之一。
当被网友问及此生最成功的投资时，这位《创智赢家》节目明星回答道：“大学毕业多年，我仍保持学生时期的生活方式，旨在创办自己的企业。”
这位达拉斯独行侠队老板并非首次承认靠节俭积累财富。此前在“成功与动力”系列博文中，他就分享过塑造自己今日商业领袖地位的极度节俭习惯。
这些习惯包括：驾驶价值200美元的破旧汽车（其中一辆的车底板还破了个洞）、因无力承担卧室租金而睡在“沙发或地板上”、身着他为求职面试购买的两套聚酯纤维西装中的一套——两套总价99美元。
如今，库班的净资产约为60亿美元，住在达拉斯一套面积达2.4万平方英尺（约合2230平方米）的豪宅里。但你绝不会看到他挥霍金钱雇佣管家或私人司机，这位亿万富翁此前透露自己至今仍亲自动手洗衣服、驾车出行，并保持着与儿时朋友的往来。“无论贫穷、中产还是富裕，我竭力保持一贯本色。”他在《The Really Good Podcast》播客节目中说道。
《财富》杂志已联系库班寻求置评。
库班给Z世代的建议：从每份工作中学习，拥抱人工智能
库班的成功传奇仍在不断续写。32岁时，他以600万美元出售Microsolutions，随后联合创立Broadcast.com，最终以超50亿美元的股票对价将其售予雅虎。自2012年起，他持续参与美国广播公司（ABC）《创智赢家》节目录制直至今年。如今，库班专注于处方药企业Cost Plus Drugs的运营，并参与达拉斯独行侠队的联合管理。
他保持成功的秘诀在于持续学习。即便在20多岁时频繁更换工作——有些工作他觉得“难登大雅之堂”，不愿写进简历——但他仍将每份工作都视为学习机会。
“[我坚信]自己从事的每一份工作，本质上都是他人付费让我了解新行业的机会。我会尽可能投入时间，学习、研读所有能接触到的商业资料。过去，我常在图书馆里一待就是好几个小时，埋头研读商业书籍和杂志。”他此前在一篇旧博文中写道。
“我常沉迷于钻研一款新软件，废寝忘食，抬头看时间时以为才傍晚六七点，却发现已是凌晨一两点，时间飞逝。”
如今，库班希望Z世代能以同样的态度学习人工智能。今年三月，他甚至与MasterClass合作推出一款名为MasterClass on Call的聊天机器人，用户可向人工智能版库班咨询，获取复刻他成功经验的建议。
“倘若如今我年仅16岁、18岁、20岁或21岁，我定会将醒着的每一分钟都倾注于人工智能学习。”今年早些时候，库班在西南偏南（SXSW）盛会上表示，“甚至在入睡时，我也会听人工智能主题播客。”（*）
译者：中慧言-王芳
Before becoming a billionaire entrepreneur and investor, Mark Cuban lived with five roommates in a 3-bedroom apartment and shopped for groceries at midnight to save money.
And now, he’s just revealed that being thrifty was one of the key drivers to building his first business.
When a user online asked his best investment of all time, The Shark Tank star replied it was “living like a student long after college so that I could start my business.”
It’s not the first time the Mavericks owner has admitted he penny-pinched his way to wealth. In his previous “Success and Motivation” blog series, Cuban shared his most frugal habits that shaped him into the business owner he is today.
Some of those habits included driving $200 cars (one of which had a hole in the floorboard), sleeping on the “couch or floor” because he didn’t pay to have his own bedroom, and wearing one of two polyester suits he bought for job interviews—for a grand total of $99.
Today, Cuban has an estimated net worth of $6 billion and lives in a 24,000 square-foot mansion in Dallas. But you won’t catch him wasting money on butlers or a chauffeur. The billionaire previously revealed he still does his own laundry, drives himself from A to B, and has regular friends he grew up with.. “I just try to be the same person as I was when I was poor and middle and rich,” he told The Really Good Podcast.
Fortune has reached out to Cuban for comment.
Cuban’s advice for Gen Z: Learn from every job and AI
Cuban’s journey to success hasn’t ended. After selling his company Microsolutions at age 32 for $6 million. He then co-founded Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo for over $5 billion in stock. He then began appearing on ABC’s Shark Tank in 2012 up until this year. Now, Cuban is focused on his prescription drug venture Cost Plus Drugs and co-owning the Dallas Mavericks.
His secret to maintaining success is constantly learning. Even when he was in his 20s and hopping his way through jobs he thought were too “embarrassing” to put on his résumé, he viewed each one as an opportunity to learn.
“[I believed] that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines,” he previously wrote in one of his old blog posts.
“I would get so involved with learning a new piece of software that I would forget to eat and look up at the clock thinking it was 6 or 7 p.m. and see that it was 1 a.m. or 2 a.m., time would fly by.”
And now, Cuban wants Gen Z to have the same attitude towards learning AI. In March, he even rolled out a chatbot with MasterClass on Call so users can ask AI-Cuban for advice on emulating his success.
“If I was 16, 18, 20, 21 starting today, I would spend every waking minute learning about AI,” Cuban said at SXSW earlier this year. “Even if I am sleeping, I am listening to podcasts talking about AI.”