Mark Cuban
28 statements across 6 episodes · 7 bullish · 14 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 26, 2025 by Erik Torenberg · said 58 times in 19 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN
- The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
- Gary Vee Says the Smartest Investors Are Going Analog
- FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
- Anthropic-OpenAI war, Walmart hits $1T, Gas Town & Vibecoding | Diet TBPN
- Anthropic Declares War on OpenAI in Scrappy Super Bowl Ads
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2025 21 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Dr. Drew on Tech, COVID, and Living a Happy Life
- Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
- Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5
- Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
Everything said about Mark Cuban, oldest first
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Aug 21, 2025 bearish
Cuban: Recent IPOs behave like meme coins with musical-chairs dynamics
“I mean, it's like watching some of these IPOs, they're like meme coins now.
Bam, they take off, and then it's musical chairs to see who can get out the last but first, right?
And if you don't get out first, or at near the beginning, you're getting crushed, you…”
Aug 21, 2025 bearish
Aug 21, 2025 bearish
Cuban: IP practices will radically change as AI training absorbs published work
“Part two, we're, I think we're going to see a groundswell in how intellectual property is dealt with. A groundswell change in how IP is dealt with. Because there was, for a long time, it's been publish or perish. Get your stuff out there. Get it into journals.…”
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Aug 21, 2025 neutral
Cuban: Retail private markets require platforms to act as market makers
“Is there a way, whether it's tokenization or other approaches to that?
Probably, but it's going to have to go back to the future where somebody is going to have to take some risk and be a market maker.
Yeah.
If Vlad or whoever is a market maker so that there's…”
Aug 21, 2025 bearish
Cuban: Opposes equity crowdfunding because retail investors lack liquidity
“I've been anti
It's not sweat equity crowdfunding, right?
Crowd equity programs against it because there's no liquidity.
People love a company, the next Figma, and they put in their life savings because they know Figma is going to the moon, baby, and they can…”
Aug 23, 2025 positive
Aug 23, 2025 bearish
Aug 23, 2025 negative
Aug 23, 2025 bullish
Aug 23, 2025 neutral
Cuban predicts five to six foundation models and millions of brand models
“There's not, there'll be five, six, whatever it is, foundational models before there's consolidation. But beyond that, there's gonna be millions of models. Millions and millions of models. And every brand is going to need a model, particularly like in healthca…”
Aug 23, 2025 positive
Aug 27, 2025 negative
Mar 19, 2026 bullish
Cuban: I Mandated Cost Plus Watermarks on My OpenAI Sora Clones
“I made a condition so that at the end of every video that used my likeness, you had the, it showed the logo for Cost Plus Drugs. So smart. So smart. And it's been used like hundreds of thousands of times, and I know we've seen a bump as a result.”
Mar 19, 2026 neutral
Mar 19, 2026 bullish
Cuban: Requiring Foreign Amazon Seller Bonds Would Skyrocket US Manufacturing
“And yeah, and legislatively you could fix it in a heartbeat. You got to post a bond. 25,000 dollar bond, depending on the size of the market, maybe more, and then give everybody 90 days to check it, and all of a sudden the whole industry changes, and American …”
Mar 19, 2026 bearish
Cuban: Bandwidth Limits Will Constrain Video-Based AI World Models
“I think, you know, the biggest challenge going forward is going to be, as we go from an LLM world to a world view world of AI, where, you know, we're taking in video and learning from the video and extracting rules from the video, a lot of the things that we'r…”
Mar 19, 2026 bearish
Cuban: Adversarial graffiti will inevitably confuse vision-based self-driving systems
“There's somebody somewhere trying to figure out how to fuck up self-driving mode, right? Because it's just taking video input, and you know, what, it could be some pattern, and all of a sudden you're seeing this pattern on medians, or, you know, overlaid on st…”
Mar 19, 2026 bearish
Mar 19, 2026 bullish
Mar 19, 2026 negative
Mar 19, 2026 neutral
Mar 19, 2026
Cuban: Only Two Shark Tank Pitches Completely Choked in 15 Years
“Of the hundreds, if not thousands of pitches I saw in 15 years, we only had one really just choke, right, where they couldn't spit it out maybe two, which is amazing, it's a testament to Mindy and the producers there, and how hard they prepare them.”
Mar 19, 2026 bearish
Cuban: AI Cold Email Surge Will Drop Off as Response Rates Plummet
“And that's okay, right? Because they're gonna, the response rates most likely will be so low. We're in that trial and error phase where people are like, we're gonna try and see what happens. You know, maybe we'll get lucky and then they'll get bored and then i…”
Mar 19, 2026 neutral
Mar 19, 2026 negative
Cuban: High Insurance Deductibles Turn Hospitals Into Subprime Lenders
“If you don't have that money, and 40% of people don't have 400 dollars for an emergency, when you go to the hospital, as an example, they literally end up loaning you the money. And that, as a result, we've turned hospitals and providers into subprime lenders.”