Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, February 16th.

Today on Forbes, how this serial entrepreneur became a billionaire from diapers, basketball, and now takeout.

Mark Lorry loves to invert old adages, like put the cart before the horse, or count your chickens before they hatch.

Dismissing the originals is anti-entrepreneurial.

It's hokey, sure, but telling of a restless mind.

The 53-year-old serial entrepreneur, who has dabbled in everything from e-commerce to baseball

cards, is now worth $2.8 billion, Forbes estimates.

The Staten Island New York native studied business and economics at Bucknell, then spent six years at three banks before quitting to start a company, any company.

He and two childhood friends came up with The Pit, an online trading card marketplace they sold in 2001

for $6 million.

After becoming a new parent, Lori dropped out of the Wharton School to co-found diapers.com.

Amazon bought it in 2010 for $500 million in cash, then reportedly shut it down in 2017.

Next was jet.com, an e-commerce take on Costco that Walmart bought for $3.3 billion in 2016

and shuttered in 2020.

Lori stayed on to run the retail giant's online arm until 2021.

Later that year, he teamed up with retired New York Yankee star Alex Rodriguez on a deal to

buy the Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA's Minnesota Links for about $1.5 billion

to be paid in four installments through 2024.

Lori and Arod completed the first two rounds, paying an estimated $550 million for roughly 40%.

Lori's slice is about 25%.

The third installment ended up in arbitration amid a dispute over whether the duo met a

March 2024 deadline. Last week, a panel sided with the duo, allowing them to continue

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