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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”
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.”
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”
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…”
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 claims a major health insurer did $161B in intercompany transfers
“One of the biggest insurance companies had a 161 billion dollars of intercompany transfers.”
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 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?”
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: 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.”
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 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”
Cuban: Kamala Harris has specified a 28% capital gains tax rate
“She's been very specific that cap gains goes to 28%”
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.”
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.”
Cuban: Administrative expenses represent 21% of US healthcare costs
“Effectively about 21% of all health care costs in the United States are for administration”
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.”
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.”
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs carries roughly 2,450 medications
“We've got about 2450 right now, and that number's growing every day.”
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.”
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.”
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs is the first company bearing my name
“I've never put my name on a company until now.”
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.”