Mark Cuban
33 statements across 9 episodes · 9 bullish · 7 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2015 by Kris Jones · said 42 times in 19 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Mark Cuban's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (17), Victor Riparbelli (5), Jason Calacanis (5), Peter Rojas (4), Jason Wilk (3), Aaron Levie (2), Shaun Maguire (1), Sarah Smith (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Sales: Sierra: Inside Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Sales Machine & How to Prospect, Outbound and Close Enterprise Deals in AI
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
- 20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
- 20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- 20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
2015 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about Mark Cuban, oldest first
Jan 13, 2015 positive
Kris Jones advises aspiring VCs to publish startup analysis on a blog
“It's as easy as going to WordPress and starting up your own blog and, You know, you could create a blog and start to express your thoughts on, on startup companies and, you know, that space so that when you do reach out to say a Gary Vaynerchuk or a Mark Cuban…”
Oct 14, 2015 neutral
Aug 14, 2017
May 4, 2020
Cuban claims AudioNet was the only internet broadcasting company when founded
“When we started audio net, it wasn't like there was a streaming market. It was nice. It was nobody, not one single company doing what we were doing. And that was the exciting part because everything we did was the very first time it was done.”
May 4, 2020 negative
Cuban passed on Uber's seed round after negotiating valuation with Travis Kalanick
“And so I negotiated on valuation because I knew it was a great idea. I just didn't realize how big it would be going back to some of the earlier questions. You asked me, and so I said, here's what I would do, and he never came back to me, which pissed me off, …”
May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020 positive
May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020 bullish
May 4, 2020 negative
May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020 negative
May 4, 2020 bearish
Cuban predicts the post-COVID economic recovery will not be V-shaped
“I don't think we're going to have a V shape where all of a sudden everything's back to normal. I don't even think we're going to have a Nike swoosh shape where we go down lower and then come back up over a little lower slope. I think it's going to be a struggl…”
May 4, 2020 negative
Cuban refuses to invest in venture-backed companies that buy market share
“The type of investments I won't do or don't do is ones where companies buy sales. So this is going to be a company that has to raise five hundred million to do one hundred million in sales because they want to own market share. And then they can get an exit be…”
May 4, 2020 positive
Cuban funded Travis Kalanick's Red Swoosh and profited from its acquisition
“I met Travis through Red Swoosh. I actually funded that, and so I kept him alive when he was about to die with his previous company, and to his credit, he busted his ass and got it sold, and we made money off of it, so I knew he was a good entrepreneur of”
May 4, 2020
Sep 21, 2020
The Chainsmokers launch $35M Mantis VC fund with Conway, Cuban, and Raboy
“Now, Mantis is their first thirty-five million dollar venture fund, and so if you haven't guessed it already, I'm thrilled to welcome Alex Poole and Drew Taggart, founders of the Chainsmokers, and now Mantis, with the new vehicle they have backing from some of…”
Oct 5, 2020 positive
Feb 8, 2022 positive
Cuban: Algorithmic content amplification is protected under First Amendment
“They made a really, really good argument while that it's still protected under the first amendment in the United States, whether it's algorithmically derived or some comes out of someone's mouth. And so I went from saying, okay, algorithmic amplification shoul…”
Feb 8, 2022 bullish
Feb 8, 2022 neutral
Feb 8, 2022 bullish
Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022 positive
Feb 8, 2022
Cuban: Tolerating key employees' underperformance backfires 90% of the time
“So there's going to be times when you've got to bite your tongue because there's somebody that's in a position that you really, really need. And that, you know, honestly, that's, 90% of the time that's come back to bite me.”
Feb 8, 2022 negative
Feb 8, 2022 negative
Cuban: Hospitals lie about losing eight to nine percent on Medicare
“It's a shit show. You know, you don't need, you know, all these, building all these new buildings and buying all this real estate, and there's no, you know, lying about your cost to do something. Oh, our Medicare, you know, we provide Medicare. We lose eight, …”
Feb 8, 2022
Cuban: 75% of underperforming employees know they are underperforming
“When somebody is not doing the job, 75% of the time, they know it, right? And, you know, the other 25%, those are the people who just love to create stress anyways, and then they try to tell you they're solving the stress, right?”
Jan 15, 2025