Cuban: Big pharma will match Cost Plus Drugs' pricing as scale grows
Mark Cuban · Cost Plus Drugs: EXPLAINED | Mark Cuban Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Feb 8, 2022 · at 3:54
Mark Cuban discusses how established pharmaceutical companies will react to price cuts from his venture, Cost Plus Drugs.
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“A lot of them will match. Some of them will ignore us. It depends on how big we get. You know, if we have ten million customers, they'll pay attention to us. If we have a million customers, maybe not. You know, and there'll be times when there'll be PR and, you know, somebody would be talking about our pricing and then they'll match, you know, and that's what we expect them to do.”
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