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Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs prices beat market rates 99% of time
“And just the way the industry is set up, that price, not always, but 99% of the time ends up being lower than what you're probably already paying. And most likely, It's lower than your insurance copay.”
Cuban: Big pharma will match Cost Plus Drugs' pricing as scale grows
“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, yo…”
Mark Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs charges a 15% markup plus $8 fees
“The goal for us is to take generic drugs and be very transparent in what our costs and operation costs are and sell everything at a 15% markup. And from there, we add a three dollar handling fee and a five dollar shipping fee.”
Mark Cuban rejects five-year planning, focusing on short-term business execution
“I don't look forward five years. I look forward a month. You know, I look forward two years, maybe in terms of what drugs are available or coming off a patent or that we can add, but I'm not like, okay, five years.”
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs adds over 10,000 accounts per day
“We're adding 10,000 accounts Plus a day, and we're already past 50”
Mark Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs has no outside investors and is self-funded
“I didn't bring on any investors I'm financing it all myself”