Mark Cuban
Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. On 7 shows, 15 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He accumulated his initial fortune by selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! in 1999 before becoming the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and an investor on Shark Tank. He currently focuses on lowering prescription medication costs through Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
7shows
15appearances
298statements
44resolved
26supported
6contradicted
59%fully supported
287said about them ↓ Everything Mark Cuban said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Cost Plus Drugs manufactures generic pills cheaper domestically than in Asia
“And so we can make generic pills here in the United States cheaper than what we can buy them for from India or China.”
Cuban: PBMs threaten drugmakers over Cost Plus Drugs partnerships
“And they've literally told the brand manufacturers, if you deal with costplusdrugs.com, we will diminish you on that formulary. So instead of reaching a hundred eighty million people, And not just for the drugs they work with us on, but for their entire portfo…”
Cuban: AI bubble won't harm average Americans, could destroy VCs
“So it's not a bubble that's going to impact most people in the room, right? Or most people across the U S but it could just destroy a lot of VCs and a lot of funds and a lot of PE, right? Because they're going all in.”
Cuban: AI will not eliminate 50% of white-collar jobs
“But AI is not going to, you know, take away 50% of the jobs. There's just so much it can't do that regular people need it to do.”
Cuban: Controlling social media algorithms controls elections in many cases
“Whoever controls the algorithm controls, you know, the election in many cases.”
Cuban: Wealth tax proposals are showmanship based on flawed single-year models
“When Elizabeth Warren first proposed the wealth tax, so I found, and she said, well, we have these models and everything. So I found the economist at UC Berkeley, And I said, would you share your model with me or at least tell me about it? He goes, I'm like, w…”
Cuban: Within three years, companies will master AI or go under
“When it's all said and done over the next three years, there's going to be two types of companies. Those who are great at AI and those who went out of business.”
Cuban: AI companies will never see returns on trillion-dollar infrastructure spend
“They'll never get it. Yeah, they're just shitting away that money.”
Cuban: Sam Altman is 'all over the map' and it will backfire
“Sam is all over the map, and I think that'll backfire on him.”
Cuban: Humanoid Robot Startups Will Fail Miserably Within Ten Years
“I think everybody's making this push for humanoid robots. I think they might have a five-year lifespan and then they'll fail miserably, maybe 10.”
Cuban: Requiring Foreign Amazon Seller Bonds Would Skyrocket US Manufacturing
“And yeah, and legislatively you could fix it in a heartbeat. You got to post a bond. 25,000 dollar bond, depending on the size of the market, maybe more, and then give everybody 90 days to check it, and all of a sudden the whole industry changes, and American …”
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 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.”
Cuban: Telehealth platforms like Ro and Hims rip off consumers
“If you go to Rose or Hems or those guys, you're getting ripped off.”
Cuban: GOP is the Trump family business and Democrats lack leadership
“The Republican Party isn't the Republican Party anymore, it's the Trump family business, and the Democratic Party doesn't even exist anymore because, you know, they don't even know what they're doing, and there's nobody in charge, right?”
Cuban says government converting Intel grant to equity is awful
“The fact that it's a grant that they're converting, I think is awful, because it was meant to be a grant, and that was the deal the United States of America made, and now we're going back on the paper that we signed as a country.”
Cuban: Trump executes policies Democrats were not smart enough to do
“I am giving Donald Trump all his flowers because he is doing things in a way that the Democrats aren't smart enough to figure out to have done themselves.”
Cuban: Consumers won't abandon misleading AI because users are primed for misinformation
“I wouldn't agree with that, Jordy, because I think people are primed for misinformation these days. You see it in healthcare continuously. You know, you saw it with COVID vaccines. People on their deathbed say, I wish I had taken the vaccine, you know, and you…”
Cuban: AI is merely statistical and will not become smart for a long time
“Particularly because AI is not smart. Right. AI is just statistical right now. And I'm of the mindset that that's not going to change for a long time.”
The other half of the tape: Mark Cuban's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 266 times in 91 episodes across the shows. 21 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Guy Raz 54Alex Kantrowitz 25Harry Stebbings 17John Coogan 16Cynt Marshall 15Jason Calacanis 11David Sacks 10Chamath Palihapitiya 9
Statements about Mark Cuban, by other people (21)
Swalwell calls Mark Cuban one of the Democratic Party's best thought leaders
“I think one of our best thought leaders is Mark Cuban.”
Friedberg: YouTube Restricted Mode filters Tucker Carlson vs. Mark Cuban video
“I can confirm that Tucker and Mark Cuban also get filtered.”
Dr. Drew: Disturbing when non-physicians like Mark Cuban push medical opinions
“And for a non-physician to have an opinion about milk that contains pathogenic organisms that he's never heard of or he learned to pronounce yesterday is disturbing to me.”
Pincus: Developing AI app 'Based or Biased' using Mark Cuban data
“And I've been working with these AI hackers on an app, not promoting here, it's not even available, called Based or Biased, and They used him to tune the app, the model for high bias, low base, because he flips, he's, he deleted his pro-Trump, I mean, his anti…”
Torre: Mark Cuban Apologized on Twitter Over Ballmer Story
“There's an, so I've debated on my show literally Mark Cuban about this whole story before it became obvious what this was, and I appreciate the apology he gave me on Twitter yesterday.”
The Soros family and Mark Cuban were major backers of Cadre.
“We also had the Soros family, who was one of our biggest backstop partners, and Mark Cuban, who I communicated with on a weekly basis.”
Nouri spent $25K negotiating with Mark Cuban before walking away
“In the end, we spent, like, 20, 25,000 dollars on the negotiations, and I really wanted to make it happen, but I wanted a deal that basically let me still run the company the way I wanted to, and I couldn't get that deal, and I had to walk away.”
Mark Cuban invested $6M in Arlan Hamilton's fund for underestimated founders
“Last month, Mark Cuban gave Arlen six million dollars to invest in underestimated founders.”
Kris Jones advises aspiring VCs to publish startup analysis on a blog
“It's as easy as going to WordPress and starting up your own blog and, You know, you could create a blog and start to express your thoughts on, on startup companies and, you know, that space so that when you do reach out to say a Gary Vaynerchuk or a Mark Cuban…”
Cuban and Ramaswamy first debated DEI in Torenberg's private group chat
“He went on a podcast with Vivek. They had a debate. So this public, cause they, I said their names, they did a debate on DEI in our chat and then they take it to the podcast.”
Wilk: Mark Cuban Capped Startup Salary at $30K Until Profitability
“And back then, Mark actually capped my salary at 30,000 dollars a year until we could get the company profitable.”
Riparbelli: Mark Cuban led Synthesia's $1M seed at $5M post-money
“The first round was a million dollars... And we ended up doing it at the five million post with Mark Cuban”
Mark Cuban would have seen huge returns on his Stasher deal
“He would have been clicking his heels.”
Hoffman: Cuban sold MicroSolutions in 1990, netting $2 million
“Microsolutions was a success, reaching revenue of thirty million dollars. In 1990, Mark sold it to CompuServe, netting two million dollars.”
Hoffman: Twist It Up secured $225k from Cuban and Daymond John
“He walked out of there with a joint investment from Mark Cuban and Damon John of 225,000 dollars for 25% equity.”
Marshall: Mark Cuban gave full authority to overhaul Dallas Mavericks leadership
“Oh, I was definitely supported by Mark. I mean, he wanted to see some changes. He did give me free reign to make the leadership changes that needed to be made. Some people didn't think that was going to happen. And he said, no, do what you need to do.”
Marshall thought Cuban's job offer text was her kids asking for money
“And then on February 21st, 2018, I started getting all these text messages. And actually, I thought it was one of my kids. I have four kids, so I thought it was one of my kids looking for money. So I handed my husband the phone and said, one of the kids need m…”
The Chainsmokers launch $35M Mantis VC fund with Conway, Cuban, and Raboy
“Now, Mantis is their first thirty-five million dollar venture fund, and so if you haven't guessed it already, I'm thrilled to welcome Alex Poole and Drew Taggart, founders of the Chainsmokers, and now Mantis, with the new vehicle they have backing from some of…”
Calacanis Sold Weblogs Inc. for $30M With a Negative Bank Balance
“I sold Weblogs Inc. For thirty million dollars in Blogsmith. And I had negative in the bank, and I had one partner, and then one investor in you know, Mark Cuban”
Rojas: Weblogs Inc. took investment from only Mark Cuban
“We only had one investor in Weblogs Inc. It was Mark Cuban”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
How I Built This 86
TBPN 58
All-In 45
20VC 42
Big Technology 32
the a16z Podcast 3
2026 39 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
- Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- Bogg Bag: Kim Vaccarella. The $100 Million Business She Almost Abandoned
- The Right Way To Build AI Agents — With NVIDIA's Adel El Hallak and ServiceNow's Joe Davis
- Software's Path Forward In The Agentic AI Era — With ServiceNow's Amit Zavery
- OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN
- The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 64 mentions in 21 episodes 3 per episode
- All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- Dr. Drew on Tech, COVID, and Living a Happy Life
- Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire
- Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 73 mentions in 17 episodes 4 per episode
- Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- 2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!
- Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- Achieving greater things with Adam Grant
- The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Spikeball: Chris Ruder
- The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
- E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- HIBT Lab! Colin and Samir: Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry
- E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- 20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2020 44 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
- How I Built Resilience: Cynt Marshall of Dallas Mavericks
- 20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
- The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler
- 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
- Calendly: Tope Awotona
- 20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
2015 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Mark's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 3 | 85 | 58% 7/12 | full record on All-In → |
| a16zLEDGER | Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 2 | 57 | 62% 8/13 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 3 | 44 | — | full record on TBPN → |
| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 3 | 42 | 67% 6/9 | full record on How I Built This → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 2 | 36 | 56% 5/9 | full record on 20VC → |
| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 1 | 22 | — | full record on Big Technology → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 1 | 12 | 0% 0/1 | full record on Masters of Scale → |