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ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Cuban: More people died during riots under Trump than under Biden
“We had more people die during riots during his term than Biden by a long shot”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 19:58 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Cuban ties 2022 inflation peak directly to Trump's 2020 oil deal
“And you know what matches up perfectly? What matches up perfectly is that 9.1% in 2022 and the day that that agreement ended. Where MBS and Russia limited production, that agreement ended it like this.”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 27:40 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
a16z Assertion Supported
Cuban: PBMs exclude $700 biosimilar Usimri to protect drug margin revenues
“Humira is about 8000 dollars a month. Six to 8000 dollars a month. USIMRI is about 700 dollars a month. But they won't add USIMRI to their formularies because they don't want to use the revenue in the margin.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 10:33 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
a16z 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
20VC 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
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
FDA $365,000 application fees are the primary barrier to domestic generics
“Our biggest inhibitor and why we haven't done it yet is all the fees that the FDA charges. So it's about 365,000 dollars to set up what's called an end on new drug application.”
Mark Cuban Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 3:08 Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Mark Cuban claims ESOP participants earn dramatically more than union workers
“What's the earnings of people who are in ESOPs? Employee stock ownership plan versus everybody else. It's dramatically higher. It's not even close. They make more than union employees.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 13:19 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
a16z Assertion Supported
Mark Cuban claims a major health insurer did $161B in intercompany transfers
“One of the biggest insurance companies had a 161 billion dollars of intercompany transfers.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 26:13 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Mark Cuban says Cost Plus Drugs is the only pharmacy publishing prices
“Costplusdrugs.com is still the only pharmacy company that publishes an entire price list.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 26:57 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Cuban: US border encounters match pre-pandemic levels under Trump
“And so now the number of encounters at the border is about the same as what it was right before the pandemic under the Trump administration.”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 50:58 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Cuban: Harris campaign tax plan excludes unrealized capital gains tax
“They've already, you know, just the tax rates are completely different than the Biden budget proposals, where there's no, you know unrealized capital gains, etc. They went to 28 and 28%, so it's not going to be what was proposed by Biden.”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 1:11:01 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
a16z 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
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Cuban claims the United States is not a top-three leader in robotics
“America is not the leader in robotics. We're not top three”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 12:31 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
20VC 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
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Cuban commissioned Goldman Sachs index to short-hedge his Yahoo stock
“I had Goldman Sachs create an index of internet stocks that I thought sucked. And then I shorted that index because we, and we had to follow all the laws and I just had to have that short in place until I was able to do a real caller in the market on my Yahoo …”
Mark Cuban Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 7:26 Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
a16z Assertion Supported
Mark Cuban says half of high-deductible plan buyers cannot afford the deductible
“The people who are making the determination that they're using the higher deductible plan, half of them don't have enough money for the deductible, right?”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 23:34 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Cuban: Trump chose weapon sales to Saudi Arabia over ending Yemen war
“And we had the opportunity to stop selling weapons, but He looked, the best I could tell, he looked at it as a sales opportunity to sell to MBS all these weapons, and he thought that was a positive. So, a lot of people died, and we're still in there today, so …”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 23:06 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Mark Cuban: Kamala Harris's immigration mandate was focused on Central America
“If you look at what her specific responsibility was, I alluded to it earlier, her job was to go to Central America and talk to the heads of the countries there and try to reduce the reasons why people were leaving their countries to go to the United States.”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 57:24 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Mark Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs charges a 15% markup plus $8 fees
“The goal for us is to take generic drugs and be very transparent in what our costs and operation costs are and sell everything at a 15% markup. And from there, we add a three dollar handling fee and a five dollar shipping fee.”
Mark Cuban Feb 8, 2022 ▶ 0:38 Cost Plus Drugs: EXPLAINED | Mark Cuban Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Cuban: Tech leaders like Google and Meta are borrowing billions
“What's happening now is the market leaders, Google, et cetera, Meta, they're borrowing hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.”
Mark Cuban Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 2:14 Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Cuban: New York contributes more to federal treasury than Texas
“New York contributes more to the federal treasury, right, than Texas does.”
Mark Cuban Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 32:29 Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Mark Cuban reveals Shark Tank portfolio company Beatbox Beverages sold to Anheuser-Busch
“One of my companies Beatbox Beverages, that just got sold to Anheuser-Busch, a Shark Tank company”
Mark Cuban Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 49:27 Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
a16z 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
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Cuban: Kamala Harris has specified a 28% capital gains tax rate
“She's been very specific that cap gains goes to 28%”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 40:36 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Cuban: Obama deported over 3M people, more than Trump or Biden
“Obama was the deporter-in-chief. He deported more people than Trump or Biden, over three million people, but he had a specific process in place that everybody could understand.”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 51:45 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
a16z Assertion Supported
Cuban: Three PBMs control 80% to 90% of the drug market
“And there are three of them that dominate the industry with 80, 90% market share.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 9:59 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs does not accept health insurance payments
“You can't pay using insurance on costplusdrugs.com. You have to, you know, put in your credit card and pay that way.”
Mark Cuban Feb 8, 2022 ▶ 3:34 Cost Plus Drugs: EXPLAINED | Mark Cuban Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Cuban: Administrative expenses represent 21% of US healthcare costs
“Effectively about 21% of all health care costs in the United States are for administration”
Mark Cuban Feb 8, 2022 ▶ 20:37 Cost Plus Drugs: EXPLAINED | Mark Cuban Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Partly supported
Cuban: Broadcast.com launched internet audio by encoding radio feeds from VCRs
“I took a eight-hour VCR and went to a local radio station, and we hooked up this VCR to their audio board, and we record on these eight-hour VCR tapes. Then I would take them back to my second bedroom and encode them. That was the start of audio on the interne…”
Mark Cuban Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 20:37 Mark Cuban: What investors really look for
20VC Assertion Supported
Cuban lost money on the Mavericks by prioritizing winning over profitability
“Then I bought the Mavericks and we were losing money because I cared more about winning than making money.”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 5:40 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
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Cuban claims AudioNet was the only internet broadcasting company when founded
“When we started audio net, it wasn't like there was a streaming market. It was nice. It was nobody, not one single company doing what we were doing. And that was the exciting part because everything we did was the very first time it was done.”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 7:27 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
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Cuban: Early $30,000 AudioNet stakes grew to $22 million at sale
“And so we sold, you know, one percent chunks for 30,000 dollars to our friends. When we sold the company, those 30,000 dollar chunks were worth twenty two million dollars.”
Mark Cuban Dec 5, 2016 ▶ 20:22 Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Cuban: Yahoo Acquired Broadcast.com for $5.7 Billion in Stock
“5.7 billion in stock.”
Mark Cuban Dec 5, 2016 ▶ 20:36 Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Contradicted
Cuban: $285M Mavericks purchase was the highest price ever paid then
“When I bought the Mavs, everybody like, are you an idiot? It was the highest price ever paid for a sports team. Two hundred eighty-five million dollars, and everybody thought I was a moron.”
Mark Cuban Dec 5, 2016 ▶ 22:14 Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Partly supported
Guardian Bikes reshored 85% of manufacturing to Indiana using robotics and AI
“Guardian Bikes, move their manufacturing, 85% of it now to Indiana, the state of Indiana, because now with automation and AI and robotics, you can push your costs down.”
Mark Cuban Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 49:27 Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Mark Cuban says NBA could not find a buyer for New Orleans
“In 2010, The NBA couldn't even sell the New Orleans franchise. There were no buyers. And the valuation had gone down.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 36:08 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
a16z Assertion Supported
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs carries roughly 2,450 medications
“We've got about 2450 right now, and that number's growing every day.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 1:45 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
a16z Assertion Supported
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs caps markup at 15% plus $10 fee
“You'll see that our markup is 15%. You'll see that if you buy a mail order from us, you'll pay 10 dollars for shipping and a pharmacy fee.”
Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 1:53 Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
a16z 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
HOW I BUILT THIS Prediction Didn’t hold up
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs will offer 2,000 medications by year-end
“And by the end of the year, we'll be up to 2000.”
Mark Cuban Jun 16, 2022 ▶ 11:32 HIBT Lab! Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company: Mark Cuban
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs is the first company bearing my name
“I've never put my name on a company until now.”
Mark Cuban Jun 16, 2022 ▶ 20:23 HIBT Lab! Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company: Mark Cuban
20VC Assertion Supported
Cuban bought a lifetime American Airlines pass after selling his first company
“When I sold my first company, Micro Solutions, I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines, and literally just traveled and partied like a rock star, and I lived like a student.”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 5:09 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
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Cuban: MicroSolutions Sold to CompuServe for $6M, Netting Him $2M
“Sold it for six million dollars, gave a chunk of it to my employees, ended up with two million and Martin ended up with two million, and boom.”
Mark Cuban Dec 5, 2016 ▶ 12:25 Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Trump sent Cuban a 'you suck' letter after TV show canceled
“And then when I got canceled, he sent me that letter basically saying, you suck.”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 9:54 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
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