Cuban: My 70-company Shark Tank portfolio is worth over $20 million
Mark Cuban · Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban · Dec 5, 2016 · at 25:32
Investor Mark Cuban breaks down the financial returns and performance distribution across his roughly 70 Shark Tank investments.
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“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 to know it. And then the next, you know, the top 12 that are making 500,000 or more in profit per year and have paid me back a lot of money or reinvesting a lot of that money into growth.”
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