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Cuban: Post-pandemic period will be the best time to start a business
“And going forward over whatever period of time it takes for us to get to the other side, it'll be the best time in the history of mankind to ever start a business because there are no rules.”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 9:27 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
Prediction Held up
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…”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 15:29 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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 Feb 8, 2022 ▶ 3:54 Cost Plus Drugs: EXPLAINED | Mark Cuban Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 10:56 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
Prediction Held up
Cuban says he will never invest for a 1% or 2% stake
“You'll never see me invest to get one or two percent, because the company can't get big enough for me to get a material enough return to have it impact my net worth, just to be brutally honest.”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 14:30 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
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