To be fair, he used some of that stardom to get Shark Tank to drop the automatic 5% equity grant just for appearing on the show, including retroactively to previous entrepreneurs.

https://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/mark-cuban-forces-shark-ta...

That's orthogonal.

You can have an exit-strategy, or become a billionaire, or a reality tv star, and achieve it by acting bad.