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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, …”
Cuban buys crypto carbon offset tokens like BCT, Klima, and MCO2
“I mean, there's this, these crypto tokens I'll buy that are carbon offsets, BCT and climate and others, MCO two, and just, you know, to try to reduce my guilt.”
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”
Mark Cuban has invested tens of millions into Cost Plus Drugs
“It's, you know, it's tens of millions of dollars and growing.”
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.”
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”