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Mark Cuban shares the real sacrifice of starting from nothing, sleeping on the floor in a shithole, getting fired, and choosing to start his own company “When I got to Dallas, moved in with five roommates, didn’t have a bed, I just slept on the floor. I mean, that’s an example of sacrifice, living in a shithole.” “Got a job working at night as a bartender, but then almost immediately got a job working at a software store. And that was going to be for me my first step into a real job, right, where I could have a future. I got fired nine months later.” “And I wanted to move out of the shithole I lived in, and I was going to be looking at a $1,500 commission, which would have done it for me. So I called my boss, and I’m like, I need to go pick up this check. You’ll make money, I’ll make money, and I have somebody to cover opening up the retail store that I worked in. And he was like, no, I need you in the store.” “And I made the executive decision to go pick up the check, thinking when I brought it in everything would be well. He fired me on the spot.” “Fired me and I’m like, okay, you know, I suck as an employee. This is not what I want. I’m going to start my own company.” “And I don’t know if I’d call it sacrifice, but I’d call it deferring immediate gratification.”