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Cuban: Donald Trump has charisma and is one of the world's best schmoozers
“He's a blast. He's fun to talk to, you know, he's got charisma, he's got personality. He's easy to like. I mean, you know, he's used to schmoozing. He's a, he's one of the world's best schmoozers.”
Cuban: Trump refuses to email directly to avoid leaving paper trails
“He refuses to send an email because he doesn't want any proof of anything he's done, 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 …”
Cuban: Biden lacked processing speed, not pure cognitive capability
“It's not that he had cognitive decline in the pure sense. It's that his ability to respond quickly was gone, and he looked like he had cognitive decline.”
Cuban: Once Trump was nominated, I just wanted whoever could beat him
“Once Donald Trump was the candidate, I wanted the best person to beat Donald Trump. That's what I cared about.”
Cuban: Removing daily business uncertainty was Biden-Harris's top achievement
“There just wasn't this uncertainty like every single day that every business woke up with Trump. Just removing that. Was the biggest positive of all.”
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: US should provide financial aid to Ukraine rather than deploy soldiers
“Ukraine, I don't want to see American blood spilled, and as long as there's a NATO, and I agree there should be a NATO, I'd rather see us spend money than put soldiers in harm's way.”
Cuban: The U.S. has never had a president who understands technology
“We have yet to have a president that fully understands technology.”
Cuban: Kamala Harris believes implementing technology improves government efficiency
“She understands the impact, and she has a lot of people who truly are geeks around her, and she truly believes that implementing technology is a way to improve efficiency.”
Cuban: SEC Chair Gary Gensler practices regulation through litigation
“The point there is he has an approach that is regulation through litigation. He's going to sue you first, ask questions later, and hope that the result of that litigation becomes a rule that everybody else has to follow.”
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs sells a 90-pack of tadalafil for $9.90
“So if you go to costplusdrugs.com and you put into Dilafil, when it comes up, we show you our actual cost, and then we mark it up by 15%, and if you buy it via mail order, then we add five dollars for a pharmacy fee to review everything, and five dollars for s…”
Mark Cuban predicts tens of millions of custom AI models
“I think there are going to be tens of millions of models. Everybody's going to have a model.”
Mark Cuban calls Elon Musk an intentional troll on X
“As a Twitter user, he's a troll. And I mean, he just trolls to troll to troll, and every good troll deserves a foil, right?”
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: Portfolio companies resist his advice to go public
“I'm like trying to tell my portfolio companies go public. They just don't think that's the right thing to do.”
Cuban: Disruptive AI companies will not need to be enormous
“If AI does what we know it will do, the companies that are disruptive don't have to be enormous companies.”
Cuban: Enterprise AI is much harder to implement than expected
“So AI is a lot harder to implement than anybody expected. For sure.”
Mark Cuban: AI will impact healthcare but won't replace doctors
“For health, it's going to make a huge difference, but it's not going to replace doctors.”
Cuban: New York contributes more to federal treasury than Texas
“New York contributes more to the federal treasury, right, than Texas does.”
Cuban: Cost Plus Wellness aims to launch by end of month
“We're creating a company called Cost Plus Wellness that hasn't launched yet. It'll hopefully launch at the end of this month.”
Cuban has held a massive Bitcoin hedge for five years
“So, I own, A ton of Bitcoin, first and foremost, right? Kind of a hedge. Have probably five years now.”
Mark Cuban states he is an independent voter, not a Democrat or Republican
“I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican, I'm an independent through and through.”
Cuban: Every inch of Donald Trump's office was covered with pictures of himself
“Every inch of his office is covered with pictures of him. Every single inch of the office.”
Cuban: The 35% corporate tax rate hurt US global competitiveness
“That was too expensive. It made it difficult for us to compete globally.”
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 says his comments on running SEC were just trolling Gary Gensler
“I was just trolling Gary Gansler. Yeah, I was just trolling Gary Gansler because it's fun to do.”
Mark Cuban retained a 27.7% stake in the Dallas Mavericks after selling
“So I sold three quarters of them, not the whole thing. I still own 27.7%”
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs is currently unprofitable due to robotic factory costs
“Right now I'm losing money, and most of that was because we built a factory, a whole robotics-driven factory that manufactures sterile injectables that are in short supply.”
Cuban: Elon Musk goes all-in without hedging more than anyone else
“The one thing I respect the most about Elon Musk, and he does more than anybody I've ever seen, and that is he goes all in. He doesn't just, you know, he takes every cent he has, and he believes in it, and he goes all mother in. He never hedges his bet at all.”
Cuban: Google's Gemini 1.5, NotebookLM, and Meta open source are insanely good
“Notebook is insanely good. Gemini, 1.5 is insanely good. Meta as open source and what they're doing is getting better and better.”
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs lowers a drug price every weekday
“Since last a year ago, more than a year ago, Every weekday we've lowered a price on a drug”
Mark Cuban discloses investment in xAI's Grok with Chamath Palihapitiya
“I invested in Grok, right, with Shamath, right?”