Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
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(7:50) AI's real-world limits: why enterprise AI is harder than expected
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Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan
Mark Cuban is an entrepreneur and investor. Cuban joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping business, software, jobs, and education. Tune in to hear why he believes AI is an exponential shift, how companies should rebuild themselves around it, and why curiosity will matter more than ever in the AI era. We also cover the economics of foundation models, which software companies are most vulnerable, how young people should build careers with AI, and his thoughts on Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and the future of the NBA. Hit play for a lively conversation on who wins, who loses, and how to stay ahead as AI transforms the economy.
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Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
Plus, Mark on his most challenging venture yet: revolutionizing the prescription drug market in America.
First we meet Lucy from Washington DC, considering an opportunity to bring her upside-down peanut butter brand into a big box retailer. Then Macy from Utah, wondering if her youth-safe skincare products are better marketed to kids or their parents. Then Dan from North Carolina, looking to reboot his pre-pandemic business selling hand-crafted wooden razors. And finally Kristen from Michigan, questioning if she should expand her children’s winter wear brand with gear for other seasons.
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And be sure to listen to Mark Cuban’s original episode on the show from back in 2016.
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Pioneers of AI: Mark Cuban’s investment strategy in this new era of tech
Mark Cuban has spent decades as a serial entrepreneur and investor, with one of the best track records on the planet (including celebrity status on ABC’s Shark Tank). In this episode of Pioneers of AI, Cuban joins host Rana El Kaliouby for a wide-ranging conversation about whether we are in an AI bubble, how he’s applying his investment philosophy to AI, and why the AI world is tending to excite him less and less each day.
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Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
What happens when AI collides with salesmanship, streaming-era sports, and healthcare?
In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined by Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks co-owner, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs.
Topics include fiery group chats and how dissent sharpens thinking, the sales playbook of modern politics, and concrete fixes for U.S. healthcare like ending PBM opacity, publishing real prices, and government-backed patient financing. Mark also explains how AI is pushing media from “social” to algorithmic, why he expects millions of models, and why ESOPs are an underrated wealth engine. He shares what he’d build today and weighs in on NBA economics under the new collective bargaining agreement.
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00:47 Salesmanship, Politics, and Social Media
04:05 AI, Algorithms, and the Future of Media
06:29 Fragmentation of Social Platforms
09:04 Political Messaging & Economic Populism
12:05 Wealth, Equity, and Employee Ownership
16:39 AI’s Impact on Education and Healthcare
21:32 Fixing the US Healthcare System
29:39 Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI
33:38 Business Success, Sports, and Investments
35:32 NBA Economics and Team Building
50:44 Personal Priorities & Closing Thoughts
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How to Save America: Mark Cuban and Tucker Carlson Debate | All-In Summit 2025
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(2:38) America's broken healthcare system
(15:16) State of the two-party system
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(20:01) The fine line between listening and pandering, is Mamdani the Trump of the Left?
(24:27) How to make Americans believe in America again
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Mark Cuban’s disruption formula: from streaming and healthcare to AI’s next wave
Steve Jobs once said, “Everything’s a remix.” And that’s a philosophy that Mark Cuban has taken to heart, building an entire entrepreneurial and investment career on that simple belief. The real opportunity, Cuban says, lies in spotting patterns others miss and turning them into billion-dollar disruptions.
On today's episode of Equity, Cuban joined Rebecca Bellan to discuss his decades-long strategy of betting on technologies before they go mainstream, from his early investments in local area networks and streaming services to his current healthcare and AI ventures. But Cuban's real insight isn't just about picking winners. It's about understanding why most people building in AI today are missing the point entirely.
Cuban delivered a stark warning about the current AI gold rush: while everyone's using ChatGPT, almost no one (including Fortune 500 CEOs) knows how to integrate AI into their actual businesses. His take? Forget the hype. The real money is in helping small- and medium-sized businesses figure out how to use the AI tools that already exist.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
How Cuban identified disruptive opportunities in LANs, streaming, and HD television before they became obvious.
Why he thinks current AI "isn't smart," and why that limitation could be its strength as a business tool.
The upcoming regulatory battles that will determine AI's future around IP protection, training data access, and the U.S.-China competition.
Inside Cuban's latest venture, Cost Plus Drugs, expanding from transparent pricing to manufacturing.
Cuban's prediction that AI-savvy graduates will become the most in-demand employees across every industry.
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Rapid Response: How Cost Plus Drugs is revolutionizing pharma, with CEO Alex Oshmyansky
With the help of co-founder Mark Cuban, Cost Plus Drugs CEO Alex Oshmyansky is radically re-engineering the pharma marketplace and dramatically cutting the price for many prescription drugs. Oshmyansky joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to share his amazing journey — from struggling as an immigrant in primary school to starting college at age 13, how medical practice led to entrepreneurship, plus reimagining his original plan on advice from the legendary incubator Y Combinator. Oshmyansky explains how Cost Plus Drugs stumbled into success, turning adversaries into allies and harnessing patience as a superpower.
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#390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election
Sam Harris speaks with Mark Cuban about the 2024 presidential election. They discuss Trump's ethics, his apparent political indestructibility, election denialism, the influence of Elon Musk, the strengths and weaknesses of the Harris campaign, the mystery of the southern border, Trump's immigration and deportation policies, Elon's trafficking in the "great replacement theory," Trump's economic policy, Harris's tax and healthcare proposals, the effect of tariffs, the U.S. supply chain, the problem of wealth inequality, a proposed tax on unrealized capital gains, support for Israel, a return to normal politics, and other topics.
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In conversation with Mark Cuban
(0:00) The Besties intro Mark Cuban: Voting record, working with Ross Perot's campaign in 1992
(5:43) The history of Cuban's love/hate relationship with Trump
(19:08) Trump's performance as President: what he got right and wrong
(40:46) Party nominations: Kamala vs. Trump
(49:18) Biden's performance as President: what he got right and wrong
(55:45) Should Kamala share blame for Biden's failures?
(1:07:01) International conflict, national debt, crypto regulation
(1:21:33) General sense of Kamala Harris, why she's been avoiding adversarial interviews, why Sacks supports Trump
(1:31:47) Selling a majority of his Mavericks stake, changing business landscape of the NBA, what he's working on at Cost Plus Drugs
(1:44:50) Thoughts on AI, what's next for him
(1:51:37) Relationship with Elon, re-evaluating the Twitter deal, OpenAI's new fundraise
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#190 Co-Founder Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban: Mavs to Meds
Guest: Mark Cuban, co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs and costar, Shark Tank
“I just love to compete,” says Mark Cuban. “And the day I stop is the day I’m dead.” Previously the co-founder of MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com, Cuban is probably best known to the public today for competing with the likes of Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran on the reality TV show Shark Tank. But his real focus — and his real enemy — these days is the pharmaceutical industry. His latest company, Cost Plus Drugs, aims to be far more transparent than established PBMs, or Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Mark clearly relishes eating their margin. “Everybody talks about disrupting healthcare,” he says. “This is the easiest motherf**king industry I've ever tried to disrupt because it is so opaque, and everybody is so captured by the scale of these big companies.”
In this episode, Mark and Joubin discuss Luka Dončić, Synthesia, the Sony hack, the American Dream, TikTok propaganda, MicroSolutions, throwing away watches, keeping kids grounded, Black Mirror, keeping up, Ali Ghodsi, the NBA, MGM, gambling in Dallas, the Adelson family, CES, transparency, and Alex Oshmyansky.
Chapters:
(00:55) - Game day and superstitions
(03:08) - Email responsiveness
(05:48) - Shark Tank
(09:21) - Retiring young
(10:57) - American Airlines’ lifetime pass
(12:55) - Sports and blue-collar work
(16:02) - Compete or die
(17:43) - Why Mark hates meetings
(19:57) - Immortality through AI
(23:05) - The new AI wave
(25:07) - Startup founders and low-hanging fruit
(29:24) - Selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo
(31:35) - The Dallas Mavericks
(34:52) - Selling his majority stake
(37:08) - The missing link in pharma
(41:27) - Disrupting a huge industry
(43:57) - The problem with debt
(44:59) - What “grit” means to Mark
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#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
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(11:10) – Entrepreneurship
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(1:02:39) – Dallas Mavericks
(1:08:05) – DEI debate
(1:43:58) – Trump vs Biden
(1:46:20) – Immigration
(1:55:53) – Drugs and Big Pharma
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(2:16:05) – Advice for young people
The Real Price of Healthcare with Mark Cuban
From judging inventions on “Shark Tank” to reshaping the image of NBA ownership, Mark Cuban is known for many things. In this chat with a16z General Partner David Ulevitch, he discusses the importance of entrepreneurship for maintaining America’s status as the most innovative place on the planet. This includes making big bets, like he’s doing with Cost Plus Drugs, his latest venture that seeks to upend the prescription drug markets.
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"Burn Book" Takes SxSW, with "Mensch" Mark Cuban
We're continuing book tour week in this bonus episode of “On.” Kara takes the SXSW stage with Mark Cuban, the entrepreneur turned "Shark Tank" star who is currently focused on his healthcare venture CostPlus Drug Company. The two have known each other for decades and Cuban was even featured in the "Mensch" chapter of Burn Book — a short chapter at that. On stage, Mark grills Kara on how few women are featured in her book, what makes her so successful and why she didn't just call the book "told you so." Plus, Cuban shares his theory on why a possible forced divestiture of TikTok by the US government may not yield many buyers – he suggests that the social media giant isn't worth much as long as the algorithm is not for sale.
This episode was recorded on March 10, 2024 at SXSW.
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Curing the Trust Problem with Mark Cuban
Today’s episode is with Mark Cuban, founder of multiple businesses, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, one of the sharks on Shark Tank, and cofounder of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. He is joined by Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health.
Together, they talk market forces in healthcare, the importance of trust to patients, and Mark’s ideas to tackle the Gordian knot that is American healthcare.
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EP 37: Mark Cuban Talks with Us About How He Succeeded, Advice for Young Entrepreneurs, Buying the Mavericks & Cost Plus Drugs
In the 37th episode of Cartoon Avatars Mark Cuban joins to talk about his life story, how and why he succeeded, and his best and worst business decisions. Plus advice for young entrepreneurs, his experience buying the Mavericks, crypto, the Internet bubble, fame, Cost Plus Drugs, and his biggest issue with the SEC. And somehow even more.
(0:00) Welcome Rashad
(1:20) Ghostwriting tweets
(16:18) Mark Cuban backstory
(17:24) Introducing Mark Cuban
(18:23) When Bill Gates stole Mark’s girl
(19:24) Making his email public
(20:49) Mark’s superpower
(22:29) Advice for young entrepreneurs
(25:52) Growing up in Pittsburgh
(30:27) Owning the sales process
(35:18) Mark’s journey
(41:10) Retiring at 30
(44:00) Broadcast.com
(47:50) Recognizing the internet bubble
(50:25) Crypto and early Internet parallels
(58:28) Buying the Mavericks
(1:02:50) Create your own narrative
(1:06:08) Fame
(1:08:37) Cost Plus Drugs
(1:26:30) Rapid fire questions
(1:31:25) Problem with the SEC
(1:40:24) Outro
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Music: Griff Lawson
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Solving prescription drug pricing in the US with Cost Plus Drugs & Capital RX CEOs | E1518
Today, we have two interviews with founders innovating in the US prescription drug market to bring prices down for consumers.
First up, Molly talks with Alex Oshmyansky, CEO of The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, about building a "parallel supply chain", the importance of transparency, and a breakdown of the "financial engineering" in the industry. (3:22)
Then, she talks to Capital RX CEO AJ Loiacono for a full breakdown on PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) and the opaque pharmaceutical supply chain. (40:35)
(0:00) Molly intros today's two interviews
(3:22) Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company CEO and Founder Alex Oshmyansky on operating a startup while still being a practicing doctor and Cost Plug Drugs' business model
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(54:30) Understanding PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) and the broader healthcare industry
(1:04:09) AJ gets into his background, starting Capital RX, and how it fits into the ecosystem
124 - Is Mark Cuban Buying the Bear?
Mark Cuban of ABC’s Shark Tank, owner of the Mavs, and seasoned entrepreneur and investor joins us for Round Two of Bankless.
Hear what Mark’s been up to since his first Bankless appearance, how he explains crypto to noobs (hint: he doesn’t), what he envisions next for crypto, how long he believes the bear will last and so much more!
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HIBT Lab! Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company: Mark Cuban
Serial entrepreneur Mark Cuban was one of the very first guests on How I Built This, way back in 2016. Mark has been founding and investing in startups for decades, but he’s never put his name on a company until now.
This week on How I Built This Lab, Mark joins Guy to talk about what he’s been up to since he was last on the show. They discuss his interest in NFTs and how his latest business, the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, is looking to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry.
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20VC: Mark Cuban on Reshaping the Pharmaceuticals Industry, How To Hire and Build Truly Great Teams and What Brand Really Means Today and How To Build One Successfully
Mark Cuban is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Today we are focused on Mark's latest entrepreneurial endeavor, starting Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company, the online pharmacy taking out the middlemen, meaning no price games and huge drug savings. As mentioned, Mark is also the proud owner of Dallas Mavericks, since his taking over they have competed in the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history in 2006 – and became NBA World Champions in 2011. Before Dallas Mavericks, Mark co-founded Broadcast.com – streaming audio over the internet. In just four short years, Broadcast.com (then Audionet) was sold to Yahoo for $5.6 billion dollars. If that was not enough, Mark is also one of ABC's "Sharks" on the hit show Shark Tank.
In Today's Episode with Mark Cuban You Will Learn:
1.) Cost Plus Drugs: Origin
Why Mark decided to build Cost Plus Drugs?
Why has no one done it before?
How does Mark think about resource and time allocation with Cost Plus?
2.) Building the Team: Hiring
How does mark analyze his approach to hiring? Where is he weak? Where is he strong?
What one motto does Mark always use when it comes to hiring?
What is the most common mistake Mark sees founders make when it comes to team build?
How does Mark identify stress removers? What are the core signals?
3.) Brand + Capital + Business Strategy:
Why is the current cost structure of healthcare so damaged in the US? How does Cost Plus change this?
How does Mark think about what it takes to build great brand today? Why will Cost Plus not be doing big TV and traditional media advertising?
What types of guerilla marketing is Mark most excited by? Why will Mark never have a billboard in Times Square?
4.) AMA with Mark Cuban:
What 3 traits does Mark most want his children to adopt?
What worries Mark most today?
What are Mark's biggest strengths? What are his biggest weaknesses?
What single purchase has brought Mark the greatest joy?
Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, and the Streaming Industry — with Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban, the serial entrepreneur and investor, joins Scott to discuss Bitcoin, Ethereum, use-cases for digital assets, and where SEC regulations might come in. Mark also shares why he’s bullish on AI, offers his thoughts on stimulus spending, and explains why Robinhood may not be as bad as Scott thinks. Follow Mark on Twitter, @mcuban.
Scott opens with a prediction about the streaming wars.
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Mark Cuban on Why He Thinks ETH Is a Better Store of Value Than Bitcoin - Ep.226
Mark Cuban -- billionaire investor, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and Shark Tank “shark” -- shares his thoughts on the Ethereum vs. BTC debate, issues with DeFi, and how NFTs could change content distribution. Tune in to hear Mark talk about...
why ETH is a better store of value than BTC (1:08)
why bitcoin as an inflation hedge is a bananas narrative 6:29)
his opinion on EIP-1159 and the idea of proof of stake mining (9:06)
why minting an NFT was a crypto-lightbulb moment for him (11:36)
how his background in technology prepared him to invest in crypto (13:55)
the main problem with the DeFi user experience and his advice for new DeFi users (16:34)
what might happen to the centralized banking system if DeFi becomes the norm (20:46)
how putting private data on a blockchain could work (25:53)
why CBDC’s make “perfect sense” (32:11)
how he evaluates decentralized business models and governance structures (41:13)
his NFT investment thesis (47:09)
who he believes will be the NFT winners in the long term (52:09)
why Mavs tickets are a perfect example for how NFTs may be used in the future (54:55)
industries that are ripe for NFT disruption (59:45)
the many use cases for NFTs (1:01:48)
why he is advising against minting social tokens (1:04:15)
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Episode Links
Mark Cuban
Personal website: https://markcubancompanies.com/marks-bio/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcuban
NFT Investment
Lazy.com
https://lazy.com/
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/98974/mark-cuban-digital-art-gallery-nft
Mintable
https://cryptoslate.com/mark-cuban-invests-undisclosed-sum-in-nft-platform-mintable/
Esprezzo
https://blog.esprezzo.io/esprezzo-raises-round-to-bring-no-code-automation-to-crypto-investors-nft-creators-collectors-defi-users
OpenSea
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/nft-marketplace-opensea-raises-23-million-from-a16z/
SuperRare
https://www.coindesk.com/cuban-chamath-back-nft-marketplace-superrares-9m-series-a
Other
https://markcubancompanies.com/blockchain/
Other Links
Defiant Podcast (“ETH Has An Advantage Over Bitcoin”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdGseBuuq_I
Why DeFi is the Future | Mark Cuban on the Bankless Podcast
https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-why-defi-is-the-future-mark-cuban
Mark Cuban: The Billionaire Crypto Degen on the Delphi Podcast
https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/mark-cuban-the-billionaire-crypto-degen/
NFTs as ticketing disruptor
https://cryptoslate.com/forget-overvalued-artwork-mark-cuban-sees-nft-ticketing-as-the-mass-market-disruptor/
Bananas video (2:16-3:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBlN9o6Azc
CoinDesk interview
https://www.coindesk.com/mark-cuban-bitcoin-nfts-blockchain-dallas-mavericks
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Mark Cuban: What investors really look for
No one knows the fundraising game better than Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur, investor, and star of Shark Tank. For founders, identifying the right source of capital, under the right terms, can provide a thermal updraft. But as Cuban explains, there are always strings attached when you bring on a financial partner – and those strings can pull you crashing down if you don't understand them properly. Cuban shares deep insights on the qualities investors look for in a founder, and what entrepreneurs should be looking for in return. Only the right value exchange, he says, will enable a business to leverage its way to new heights.
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54 - Why DeFi is the Future | Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban needs no introduction, but the entrepreneur and Shark Tank host has an impressive depth of knowledge of the crypto space, and he has a particular ability to break complicated subjects into simple, digestible ideas.
Listen as we talk DeFi, NFTs, Ethereum, and the future of finance with Mark Cuban!
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Mark Cuban: "ETH Has an Advantage Over BTC as a Store of Value"
In this week’s episode, we speak with Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, billionaire investor and Shark Tank star. It’s been hard to pin down if Cuban is a crypto skeptic or believer. He has questioned the value of bitcoin and called its price surges a bubble, but he has also accepted crypto payments for his basketball team, and tweeted about using Aave and selling NFTs. You’ll have no doubt after listening to this interview where he stands: Cuban is a crypto bull, but more specifically a DeFi and Ethereum bull.
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Introducing Decoder with Nilay Patel: Mark Cuban on the future of American business
This is the first episode of Nilay Patel's new podcast Decoder, an interview show that will put a spotlight on how innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology are navigating an ever-changing landscape.
On the first episode of Decoder, Nilay interviews Mark Cuban. Mark is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he’s a tech investor, and is on the hit show, Shark Tank. The conversation, recorded as last week’s election results rolled in, covers how interwoven business, technology, and policy are, whether its 5G, or the NBA bubble, or AI, or his investments into healthcare -- if you want to understand the landscape of the future, you have to understand tech, you have to understand business, and you have to understand policy.
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Mark Cuban on the presidency and the future of American business
On the first episode of Decoder, Nilay Patel interviews Mark Cuban. Mark is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he’s a tech investor, and is on the hit show, Shark Tank. The conversation, recorded as last week’s election results rolled in, covers how interwoven business, technology, and policy are, whether its 5G, or the NBA bubble, or AI, or his investments into healthcare -- if you want to understand the landscape of the future, you have to understand tech, you have to understand business, and you have to understand policy.
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Facebook’s “cultural crisis,” Mark Cuban on the NBA’s rebound, and Kara gets replaced by AI
Kara and Scott chat about the delay of the tech antitrust hearing, the "unprecedented culture crisis" at Facebook, and the think-tank financed by Big Tech that is schmoozing foreign regulators. Friend of Pivot Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, joins to talk about the return of professional basketball and why the NBA's "bubble" at Disney World is safer than the attempted comebacks of football and baseball; Cuban also discusses his Twitter battle with Ted Cruz, why he's optimistic about a COVID-19 vaccine, and why a new wave of legalized sports gambling is on the horizon. Also: What should Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg have behind them when they testify, what should we take away from AOC's battle with Ted Yoho, and can an AI algorithm write better than Kara Swisher?
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Mark Cuban On Why The Government Should Directly Hire Millions Of People
How should the government address the economic crisis? On this episode, we talk with Mark Cuban, the Shark Tank co-host and billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, who has been outspoken about what he sees as necessary to address this crisis. He explains to us why he thinks the government should directly get in the business of hiring millions of people, along with other ideas to keep people employed and stimulate demand. We also talk about the NBA, his plan to fix healthcare, as well as his future political ambitions.
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