Early Life: He was born July 31, 1958, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a Jewish working-class family in the suburb of Mount Lebanon. He has two brothers, Brian and Jeff. Cuban found his entrepreneurial spirit early. When he was 12, he sold garbage bags to make enough money to buy an expensive pair of basketball shoes. Later, he made money selling stamps and coins. When he was 16, he took advantage of a newspaper strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by going to Cleveland to get newspapers and bringing them to Pittsburgh. Cuban skipped his senior year of high school and enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh, where he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. After one year at Pitt, he transferred to Indiana University. He graduated from IU's Kelley School of Business in 1981 with a B.S. in Management.