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Before He Was a Billionaire, 24-Year-Old Mark Cuban Had 5 Roommates and Lived in 'Hell Hotel'

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At age 24, Mark Cuban shared a three-bedroom apartment in Dallas with five roommates.

The billionaire entrepreneur, who is now 68, slept on the bedroom floor for two years and kept his belongings in a corner.

Split six ways, the apartment’s rent amounted to about $400 per person.

Before earning billions, Mark Cuban lived with five roommates and had no bed of his own in a cramped three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in Dallas, Texas.

Cuban disclosed in an X post earlier this week that he lived in a 1,352-square-foot apartment for two years. He was “the last one in” to the arrangement, so he got the floor to sleep on and “a spot in the corner” of a bedroom to put his belongings.

Cuban said that he honestly “didn’t mind living with 5 roommates.”

“We all were in the same boat,” he wrote. “I moved in when I was 24.…

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