Mark Cuban Companies
Michael Israel currently serves as the Chief Innovation Officer at Shapack since October 2021 and as a Partner at DISRVPT since March 2021, where efforts are focused on transforming the multifamily real estate sector through advanced technology. As a Partner at Mark Cuban Companies since February 2015, Michael Israel leads early-stage investments across various industries, including technology and healthcare. Additionally, Michael Israel is on the Board of Directors for Finalyze Capital LLC, a quantitative trading fund specializing in machine learning and algorithmic trading, and serves on the Board of Advisors for Current Mobile, which aims to assist consumers in generating income through everyday activities. Previously, as the Director of Innovation at The X Company from August 2019 to December 2020, Michael Israel oversaw a development pipeline worth over $1 billion, and contributed insights as a Board of Advisor member for Kyber Technologies from February 2018 to June 2019, focusing on alternative datasets in agriculture and energy.
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Mark Cuban Companies
Selling garbage bags door to door, the seed was planted early on for what would eventually become long-term success. After graduating from Indiana University – where he briefly owned the most popular bar in town – Mark moved to Dallas. After a dispute with an employer who wanted him to clean instead of closing an important sale, Mark created MicroSolutions, a computer consulting service. He went on to later sell MicroSolutions in 1990 to CompuServe. In 1995, Mark and long-time friend Todd Wagner came up with an internet based solution to not being able to listen to Hoosiers Basketball games out in Texas. That solution was Broadcast.com – streaming audio over the internet. In just four short years, Broadcast.com (then Audionet) would be sold to Yahoo for $5.6 billion dollars. His trade to collar his shares of Yahoo! stock received in the sale of Broadcast.com in advance of the popping of the Internet bubble has been called one of the top 10 trades of all time. SINCE HIS ACQUISITION OF THE DALLAS MAVERICKS IN 2000 He has overseen the Mavs competing in the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history in 2006 – and becoming NBA World Champions in 2011. They are currently listed as one of Forbes’ most valuable franchises in sports. In addition to the Mavs, Mark first appeared as a “Shark” on the ABC show Shark Tank in 2011, becoming the first ever to live Tweet a TV show. He has been a star on the hit show ever since and is an investor in an ever-growing portfolio of small businesses. Mark is the best selling author of How to Win at the Sport of Business. He holds multiple patents, including a VR solution for vestibular-induced dizziness, and a method for counting objects on the ground from a drone. He is the executive producer on movies that have been nominated for 7 Academy Awards: Good Night and Good Luck, and Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room.