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Mark Cuban

26 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2024 by Mark Cuban · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Mar 5, 2024 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cuban negotiates healthcare rates at 80-100% of Medicare versus insurance's 250-275%
“Now the typical network price negotiated by the big insurance companies is 275%, 250 to 275% of Medicare, Medicare rates. Price we're negotiating right now, 80 to a hundred percent of Medicare.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 8:04 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Cuban: Big three PBMs pay independent pharmacies $0.50 for $12 scripts
“If you're dealing with one of those big three PBMs, it cost an independent pharmacy probably 12 dollars, give or take, on the location to fill a script. They're paying them 50 cents”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 16:07 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
Mar 5, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cuban saved 78% on a hospital bill by paying cash instead of insurance
“The insurance costs that they were gonna charge me, my insurance company that my employee benefits person supposedly had just negotiated a great rate, only a small increase, right, was gonna charge me 2200 dollars by paying with a credit card, it was 475.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 6:12 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Opinion
Cuban: Elite university founders appear on Shark Tank for free publicity
“When someone from Harvard, or MIT, or Stanford, they always are just there for the commercial, you know.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 23:20 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
Mar 5, 2024 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs will publish all network and operational data
“We'll be publishing everything we do. And so you'll be able to copy what we do and use the same networks, et cetera.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 17:31 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
Mar 5, 2024
Assertion Supported
Cuban: Shark Tank judges receive zero prior information about pitch contestants
“We don't know who they are when they walk, we know nothing about them, we don't know who gets picked for the show. When they walk onto the carpet in front of us, they just tell us their name, and that's all we know.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 23:12 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
Mar 5, 2024 positive
Insight
Cuban: A $300k healthcare CFO pays for themselves 100x over
“That's why you pay two or 300,000 dollars for a healthcare CFO, they will pay for themselves a hundred times over.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 19:08 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
Mar 5, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs is the easiest business he has ever started
“Of all the businesses I've ever started in my entire life, this has been the easiest.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 13:42 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
Sep 9, 2025
What-if
Mark Cuban admits he should have been more patient developing draft picks
“I think I just would have been more patient and waited guys out to see how they turn out.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 41:38 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban says Cost Plus Drugs' AI factory beats non-Asian manufacturing costs
“At cost plus drugs, we have a robotics factory and we use AI agents to monitor everything. You know, and our cost to run the factory is a fraction of pretty much everybody other than India and China, and we'll catch up to them.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 33:18 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 positive
Opinion
Mark Cuban says Donald Trump is brilliant at PR and salesmanship
“He's brilliant at it. You know, he understands how to sell. He understands how to use PR. He understands where leverage comes and when it doesn't exist. And how to zig and zag when it doesn't work.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 2:48 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025
Disclosure
Mark Cuban puts his personal healthcare information into ChatGPT first
“Everything I do, I put into chat GPT project first, you know, and share it with the doctor.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 19:17 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Mark Cuban says SEC cleared his insider trading charges in 15 minutes
“I got charged by the SEC for insider trading, and they basically just took anything and everything I said out of context. Right? So I gave them everything I had, and I got cleared in like 15 minutes.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 8:54 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban says Dude Wipes is worth $1 billion without extra capital
“Dude wipes. Right, comes on Shark Tank. I give them 200 grand for 15%. Now they're worth a billion dollars easy. You know, they're a primary brand, and they never had to raise another cent.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 52:20 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Mark Cuban backed 11 unicorn startups sourced entirely from cold emails
“I saw a list of who has the most unicorns, and I was like, I had like 11, and all of them were just from email.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 51:44 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Mark Cuban clarifies he is not a Democrat, but an independent dissenter
“I'm not even a Democrat. I was just a dissenter.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 1:13 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban says a 15% tariff would wipe out small business margins
“You increase, you know, from a two and a half percent average tariff to a 15% tariff, that's their profit margin, and it's gone.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 55:13 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban predicts patient draft strategies will dominate NBA under new CBA
“I think the Thunder methodology is better now. With the new CBA. Every new CBA creates transitional issues. Where your decisions were made in a legacy environment and they just changed all the rules. And now it's even more difficult with the second apron. Beca…”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 40:48 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Mark Cuban says Pharmacy Benefit Managers are the core problem in healthcare
“You know, everybody, Amazon, everybody else. Okay. We're going to work with the big PBMs. Cause that's where the money is. And I'm like, no, they're the problem.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 35:16 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban says he voted for George W. Bush
“I actually voted for George Bush.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 2:15 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Mark Cuban predicts net total jobs will not decrease due to AI
“And they, and that's, you know, going back to what I said earlier, there will be disintermediation, but I don't think the net number of jobs is going to decrease.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 56:47 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban says Rebel Cheese saves thousands weekly using an AI agent
“One of my Shark Tank companies is Rebel Cheese. And they added a direct to consumer business. And they created an agent that compares the weight that comes off the scale for what they're saying, or the box type, and what they were invoiced by UPS or FedEx, and…”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 31:22 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Mark Cuban says he was the first investor in Synthesia
“Synthesia, you know, I was their first investor, you know, gave them a million dollars, and now, you know, so I can get 20, 25% of a company, sometimes more and then help them grow.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 51:54 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025
Insight
Mark Cuban says generational NBA players are inherently undervalued by max contracts
“That, if you have your one generational player, you pay them whatever it takes. Because of the max contracts, they by definition are undervalued.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 42:40 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Mark Cuban calls Zohran Mamdani a progressive Trump who lies to voters
“He learned from Trump. He's the progressive Trump. Just lie. You know, Day one, groceries are going to be cheaper. I'll just, I'll open the grocery store because I'll sound more progressive that way, right? Day one, buses are free. And then everything else, he…”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 14:35 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Mark Cuban says Mavericks didn't know Luka Dončić would be a superstar
“Even with Luca, we didn't know he was going to be a superstar. We thought he was going to be really, really good.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 50:09 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
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