Cuban: I only attack Shark Tank contestants pitching scams
Mark Cuban · Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban · Dec 5, 2016 · at 24:18
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban explains to Guy Raz why he sometimes treats Shark Tank pitch contestants harshly on the show.
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“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 or your product's a scam, I'm going to nail you know, because I don't, I know that people see these products and they'll go to buy them”
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