Mark Cuban
28 statements across 5 episodes · 12 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2016 by Mark Cuban · said 86 times in 26 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (54), Cynt Marshall (15), Chip Gaines (4), Adam Grant (3), Melissa Butler (2), Jamie Siminoff (2), Gina Davis (2), Aaron Krause (2)
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2026 21 mentions in 9 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
- Advice Line with Daymond John of FUBU
- Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
- Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
- Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
- Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
- HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- Advice Line with Troy Carter of Atom Factory
- SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
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2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2020 37 mentions in 5 episodes 7 per episode
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Dec 5, 2016 positive
Cuban: My 70-company Shark Tank portfolio is worth over $20 million
“You know, if, you know, if I was going to value it, would I have more than twenty million of value? Absolutely. So out of the 70 give or take companies that I've invested in, I'd say two are out of business, two are out of business and just aren't smart enough…”
Dec 5, 2016
Cuban: I only attack Shark Tank contestants pitching scams
“If there's an entrepreneur who's got their life tied up in something, I'm not going to be mean, right? I'm going to be supportive and I'll come up with suggestions even if I'm not investing. But if you're trying to scam me, if you're trying to pull a quickie o…”
Dec 5, 2016 negative
Dec 5, 2016 neutral
Cuban: Becoming a billionaire requires luck in addition to execution
“To be a billionaire, you got to get lucky, right? I started my company, you know, at a time when the stock market was going nuts, and that, that was my luck, and I was smart enough to do it, smart enough to run it, smart enough to execute on it, smart enough t…”
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Dec 5, 2016 bullish
Cuban: If starting over, I would easily become a multimillionaire again
“Could I become a multi-millionaire, millionaire again? I have no doubt, because I would work hard enough, and I, and look, and I don't mean that to sound disrespectful. There's a lot of people who work really hard but in sales, you know, knowing what my sales …”
Oct 10, 2020 positive
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.”
Oct 10, 2020
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…”
Nov 22, 2021 negative
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.”
Nov 22, 2021 bullish
Jun 16, 2022
Jun 16, 2022 positive
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Jun 16, 2022 neutral
Jun 16, 2022 positive
Jun 16, 2022 positive
Jun 16, 2022 bullish
Cuban: DAOs can align progressive and capitalist goals better than traditional unions
“There's these things called distributed autonomous organizations, DAO. Which I think can evolve to be the best of progressive goals of allowing workers to participate in all upside and capitalist goals where, you know, people who come up with great ideas using…”
Jan 29, 2026 bullish
Jan 29, 2026 positive
Jan 29, 2026 positive
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Jan 29, 2026 negative
Jan 29, 2026 negative
Founders should ignore venture capitalists pushing top-line sales to avoid dilution
“What I'm going to tell you is to ignore your VC no matter what they say. If they tell you to chase sales, ignore them, because they'll be right in saying this is the only way to get huge, but you don't want to be in the position where you lose control of your …”