Benzinga 和 Yahoo Finance LLC 可能通过以下链接赚取某些项目的佣金或收入。

大多数人在网上买过东西，后来又提出质疑。一个小工具。一件家具。甚至可能是一辆车。但 1999 年，马克·库班 (Mark Cuban) 将网上购物提升到了前所未有的水平。这位亿万富翁企业家以 4000 万美元的价格在线购买了一架湾流 V 型私人飞机，创造了有史以来最大单笔电子商务交易的吉尼斯世界纪录。

25 年多后，这一记录仍然保持着。

A $40 Million Purchase With a Few Emails

库班多年来多次分享了这个故事，包括在 2010 年接受 Business Jet Traveler 采访时。在湾流网站上研究了这架飞机后，他要求飞行员进行测试。

不要错过：

苹果认为空间计算是未来。这家私营公司正在建设与之相匹配的工作场所。

人工智能淘金热也需要镐和铲子——这家公司正在构建基础设施层。

"He raved about it," Cuban said.

下一步出奇地简单。 “所以我又发了一封电子邮件说我想买它，”他说。 “我收到了银行指示，汇了钱，就这样了。”

The purchase came shortly after Cuban became one of the biggest winners of the dot-com era. His company Broadcast.com was sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion , giving him the financial freedom he had spent years pursuing.

他学到的最重要的教训之一来自他的父亲。

2020 年，库班对《创智赢家》投资人芭芭拉·科克伦 (Barbara Corcoran) 说：“你不拥有的最有价值的资产就是你的时间。”

That philosophy helps explain why he was willing to spend so much money on a private jet.对于库班来说，这不仅仅是奢侈。 It was about saving time, increasing flexibility and making it easier to balance work and family life.

热门话题：如果杰夫·贝索斯 (Jeff Bezos) 支持的新基金提供 7-9% 的目标收益率和每月股息，您会投资它吗？

The Real Reason He Bought Such a Big Plane

When Corcoran asked why he bought such a large aircraft, Cuban's first answer was refreshingly honest.

“因为我可以。”

But there was more to it than that.

Cuban recalled that when he was 16, his father bought him inexpensive "beater" cars.虽然许多青少年都梦想拥有跑车，但库班更喜欢旅行车，因为他可以把他所有的朋友都装在里面，并开着他们去看篮球比赛。

“我想要旅行车，因为我可以带着我所有的朋友去打篮球，”他说。

That same mindset carried over to the jet purchase. As Cuban put it, "It's not even bigger is better. It's just like, okay, what can I have the most fun with?"

这个故事还突出了一个定义了库班大部分职业生涯的主题。虽然许多企业家追逐最新趋势，但库班经常建立为这些趋势提供工具的企业。他没有加入淘金热，而是经常想方设法出售铲子。 Broadcast.com 帮助推动了早期的互联网繁荣，而无需成为下一个媒体巨头。

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For most Americans, a $40 million private jet isn't exactly relatable. Millions can't afford a $1,000 emergency expense.但库班的故事提醒我们，最大的机会往往来自于确定价值的创造地点并找到支持这种增长的方法。

Mode Mobile 也是围绕类似的想法构建的。 Instead of creating another side hustle that demands more hours, the company developed EarnPhone, a smartphone that allows users to earn rewards for activities many people already do every day, including reading news, listening to music and playing games.

Mode Mobile 目前允许投资者参与其首次公开募股前的发行。现在，您只需每股 0.52 美元即可投资，最低投资额为 1,300 美元。