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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 says research hospitals are idiots to publish or patent IP
“Because if I'm MD Anderson, if I'm Stanford, any research hospital, any scientist in healthcare, you're an idiot if you publish it. You're an idiot if you patent it. Because it's immediately going to get absorbed into a large language model. And you've lost co…”
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 says only Steph Curry and LeBron James are arena draws
“There's only like two players that fill an arena. Steph and LeBron.”
Mark Cuban says Trump mastered algorithms while Democrats lack effective salespeople
“What Trump has done well is learn how to flood the zone so that no matter what that algorithm finds for you, he's gonna find a way to you. Whether it's a positive or negative and then you look at Kamala and Brat Summer and, you know, fell off a coconut tree. S…”
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 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 claims traditional political polling is completely useless now
“Polling is useless now. You're always behind. And any one social media comment can change how everybody feels in a nanosecond.”
Mark Cuban ranks Tyrese Haliburton as a top 15 NBA player
“Halle is not a top five NBA player, right? Maybe top 15.”
Cuban: Donor-funded university buildings drive up tuition costs
“You're why Tuition is going up. Because that's what colleges do, and those buildings have to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat every year, and then have to get replaced, and you have a, why do you need a sociology building, and a business school building, and …”