He founded the groundbreaking HDNet high-def channels, owns the revered Landmark movie-theater chain (and the Dallas Mavericks basketball team), and is currently rattling Hollywood’s cage by releasing movies in theaters, on DVD, and through HDNet Movies at the same time. And there are plenty of people — from irate basketball refs to irate studio heads — who will tell you he’s got no problem saying exactly what’s on his mind. He’s Mark Cuban, recipient of our first ever Visionary award, and one of the most vocal spokesmen ever for the liberating power of digital technology. (Don’t believe us? Check out his musings at blogmaverick.com.) But it’s impossible to capture the essence of Cuban in a citation — which is why we let him speak for himself in “The Cuban Revolution.”

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