Some influencers don’t say much, quietly making deals behind the scenes. Mark Cuban is the total opposite. The owner of the Dallas Mavericks is known for criticizing referees and presidents alike. His business chops go back to the 1990s, when Cuban co-founded an online streaming company that he sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. He has since invested in dozens of startups and continues to do so as a host of the show “Shark Tank.” Cuban is here to talk about how to pick the right investments, ignoring everybody else’s noise, and maybe generating some of your own.
Hello, everyone, I’m Andy Serwer. Welcome to “Influencers,” and welcome to our guest Mark Cuban. Mark, great to see you.
MARK CUBAN: Thanks for having me.
ANDY SERWER: Mark, of course, entrepreneur, star of “Shark Tank,” owner of the Dallas Mavericks. And, in fact, he’s hosting us here today. We’re at Dallas Mavericks headquarters here across the street.
MARK CUBAN: Yep. Right across from the arena.
ANDY SERWER: From the arena, right. So, a whole bunch of stuff to talk to you about.
MARK CUBAN: Fire away.
ANDY SERWER: But let’s talk about this president thing that’s out there. There are people who suggest that you should run for president, maybe you have aspirations. I don’t know, but it’s a discussion point. So what would it take to have you run for president?
MARK CUBAN: I’m excited about next year for the Mavs. It’s going to be a great season.
ANDY SERWER: Come on, man.
MARK CUBAN: I don’t even want to get into it. I mean, I did one quick interview, and then all of a sudden it blew up. I don’t want to feed the beast. Like I said, there is a certain set of circumstances that would push me to do it, but we’re not there yet. So if and when it happens, you’ll be the first to know, Andy.
ANDY SERWER: OK. That’s very cool. What about the Democratic field? Is there anyone there that you think can challenge President Trump?
MARK CUBAN: Well, I mean, there’s now and then there’s November of 2020. I mean, if the election were held today, I think Trump would win. I don’t think that there’s somebody that has the momentum or just the value of the incumbency that Trump has. But, at the same time, between now and then, I think Joe Biden has got a good chance. And we’ll see what happens with any of the other of the field of 97 to see if anybody emerges or if anybody new comes in.
I think Biden is capable of beating him, but we’re not there yet.
ANDY SERWER: You’ve been critical of President Trump before. Have you kind of made any peace with him? I mean, you know, it’s been a couple of years.
MARK CUBAN: I get along with him. I mean, you know, we didn’t have to make peace. You know, like any president, I agree with some things and disagree with other things. It’s not personal. There’s things I would do differently, and but it was the same with Obama, it was the same with Bush, it was the same with Clinton. That’s just the nature of the beast.
ANDY SERWER: So have you talked to him and given him any advice? Or what advice would you give him?
MARK CUBAN: I mean, I’m not a fan of the tariffs. I understand what he’s trying to do in terms of battling China. I would approach it differently, because I think tariffs are attacks on the American people. But, at the same time, I think we have a variety of other leverage points. I’ll give you the perfect example. Chinese companies on American– Chinese companies listed on American exchanges have a market cap of more than $1.4 trillion. That’s a lot of leverage right there. They’re raising money via IPOs– something we can’t do in China. I’d shut down all Chinese IPOs.
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Just another jealous billionaire who HATES seeing another billionaire being President
And a brilliant billionaire at that
Nah. If he hates Trump, he’s pretty smart right there. Anyone who truly LIKES Trump and approves of his behavior is pretty scary.
Gregory Larry To those who hate like, yes they are scary to you
@We Love Libraries I think you are missing a word or something.
Fake news pushing a liberal loser. Good match!
Please run for office
Thank you for not posting this in two minute increments!
I have just had a class worth a million dollars.
Naci Dilekli bruh don’t exaggerate, what he says is valuable but don’t take it as the bible either. You should look at nuanced opinions from different types of “Mark Cubans” out there
he’s the best
I just love his raw thirst to get stuff done.
CUBAN 2024
Joe Biden? Really Mark? You’re disqualified right there talking politics. Joe Biden is another awkward platitude talking Neo-liberal who wants to keep the status quo and Biden isn’t even eloquent at that. Bernie/Tulsi 2020!
Cuban is spot on. Biden is the frontrunner to take down trump
@- Biden is a clown who’s been reported for being inappropriate around people’s children. He has no chance. Spent his career in politics with nothing to show
nah. Not nice. What are you?
5:42-5:45 His grand parents came from …….RUSSIA…… he has no chance, because clearly there is a collusion. Ohh wait he will if he runs anything other then a Republican, he will be just fine.
16:05 thats horizontal not vertical
horizontal gee. you ve got to understand the game before you speak out loud cuh. smh.
tf
Trump is the best Murica has !
ha, ha.
That was a great interview.
Mark Cuban is one of the smartest, most practical and most interesting people I know. Great interview.
8:29 mark has a machine learning for dummies book in his BATHROOM🤣🤣🤣🤣
TYPICAL MARK CUBAN
I wish he would run; he’s intelligent, open-minded and courageous.
What a click bait. The title suggested he would talk about ways for entrepreneurs to be successfull, but this whole interview was him talking about trump, tarrifs, stock market and financial shit. Lol
He did talk about what he thought made people successful. Comments like yours make is proof that reviews, and ratings are not always correct.
Alex like what? There was like one or two sentences. You are taking my comment out of context
@edit name More proof to my side to not listen to comments, ratings, or reviews like yours
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whatever he worked there okay so what
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was that like Mark and and how did that
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inspire you I mean my dad busted his ass
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I mean he worked six six days a week
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little
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left at 7:00 at 7:00 7:30 in the morning
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got back at 6 or 7 o’clock lost his eye
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in an accident doing upholstery
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he had a staple break when he was
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putting some covering on a car seat you
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know it was it was a middle-class
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upbringing my mom did odd jobs you know
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they just wanted something better I mean
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my grandparents came over from Russia
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you know my dad was the first generation
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my uncles were the first generation of
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Americans like my mom too and you know
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like every child of immigrants they want
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it better for their kids you know it’s
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funny I mean a lot of people grew up
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that way all right but now many people
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end up like you so what do you think
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that’s the result of I think you know
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everybody’s got something that they’re
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good at and the hard part is finding it
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and I found out early that I was a good
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salesperson that I really like business
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you know like I like sports I mean I
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read everything I possibly could played
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sports as much as I could just wasn’t as
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good as I wanted to be and and business
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was the same way I mean as long as I
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could remember I was buying and selling
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baseball cards garbage bags whatever I
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could find stamps to collectors but I
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was also reading everything I possibly
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could about business and you know I was
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that unusual kid that I’d rather read
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about Ted Turner then go to the movies
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and and so I think that created a
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foundation of my parents you know my dad
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used to always say I don’t understand
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what you’re doing but I’m glad you’re
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doing it and and so I have my ups and
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downs along the way of course but I just
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think that I just I just put in the time
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and was fortunate enough to really get
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excited about business and that paid off
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benefits over the long haul I mean you
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almost have to have that drop like in
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other words you can’t fake it you can’t
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like pretend that you want to read about
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Ted Turner and okay I’ll skip one movie
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yes I mean your your soul yeah I mean
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you can fake it to make it in a lot of
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areas particular if you’re working for
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somebody else but at the end of the day
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if you’re going to be great at something
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you’ve got to make the effort to be
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great at something whether it’s sports
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whether it’s physics math science
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business whatever it may be
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you know it’s not just a natural ski
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you’ve got you’ve got to to learn and
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particularly if you’re in the technology
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industry because the changes every day
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you know when I got started and in you
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know after I got I got it was a
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bartender when I first came to Dallas
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got into the PC industry got fired
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started my own company but there I
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learned early on that there was always
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something new and most people didn’t put
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in the time to learn it it’s like now
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with artificial intelligence lots of
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people talk about artificial
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intelligence lots of people talk about
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machine learning and neural networks not
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a lot of people are putting in the time
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to take classes or do the tutorials or
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to learn how to apply it to business and
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that’s what it takes and and you know
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that’s just something I’ve always
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enjoyed so I I’ve been fortunate at no
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wait a minute are you doing that with AI
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really what are you doing I mean I’ve
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been on Amazon doing the machine
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learning tutorials right now I’m going
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through I’ve taken Python online classes
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I really yeah absolutely if you go in my
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bathroom there’s a machine learning for
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dummies book I just started JavaScript
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neural networks there’s a little
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tutorial where they’ve got most of the
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library brain Das and all the libraries
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and it’s not if you have a background in
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programming it’s not hard but I’m not
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trying to be great at that but I want to
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understand it so I understand all the
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you know so I the nuance elements of it
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and how it works so that I have an
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advantage but where would that take you
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like with your businesses here or the
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Mavericks or you know everyone text me
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everywhere right I mean there’s nothing
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that AI won’t impact as big as the M so
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having been around a while I saw the
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impact of PCs then I saw the impact of
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local area networks then I saw the
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impact of wide area networks then I saw
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the impact of the Internet
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then I saw the impact of mobile then I
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saw the impact of Wireless you know now
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I’m seeing the impact of artificial
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intelligence and a Dwarfs any of those
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things and if I don’t understand how to
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apply it to my businesses I mean I
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remember selling pcs and software and
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walking insane you don’t need to use
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that pen and paper on a you know on a
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notepad or a ledger pad now we’re gonna
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give you a spreadsheet and by the way
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here’s a here’s a spreadsheet that cost
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four hundred ninety five dollars and I
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had to pay to go get trained on how to
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sell it which is crazy now when you
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think of
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but then we said okay now you can play
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what if then we said you can connect
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these pcs unless I understood the
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technology how is that going to explain
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it how was I going to understand it
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unless I understand it now how am I
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going to invest in it you know then I
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got to go trust somebody who says oh
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yeah I know AI and maybe they do maybe
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they don’t and it’s really easy just
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ahead just that okay say you figure it
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out that’s just not my style
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so you’re building a base of knowledge
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and then you think that at some point
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it’s gonna pay dividends and Tory has
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right I mean if you truly believe a AI
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is going to change everything how are
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you going to understand what people are
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doing to change everything unless you at
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least have a foundational understanding
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of it now I’m not going to build a
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million layer neural network and try to
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change the world and I’m not going to
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show you I’m not gonna write a research
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paper and saying here’s how why the
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lottery ticket approach works and you
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can build smaller neural networks with
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less data and be more you know resource
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efficient but I can read that stuff and
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understand that when somebody says okay
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we’re building this project and we need
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this sized data set or this size data
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set we need this amount of resources I
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can ask questions and understand the
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answers so he grew up in Pittsburgh went
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to University of Indiana for a while
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then you said you came here how have you
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adopted this city why did this become
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your home talas well I mean when I went
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to IU I had a bunch of friends that
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graduated it came down here and they’re
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like you got to get your ass down here
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the weather’s great the women are
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beautiful the economy is good I said
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wait back up and then I came down lived
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six guys in a three-bedroom apartment
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until I found my way and I’ve had a
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blast and loved it ever since so how do
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you describe yourself mark I mean I said
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entrepreneur is that how you would
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describe yourself what do you do for a
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living
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I Drive describe myself as a grinder you
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know I just like we talked about
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learning
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that’s a grind but I love it you know
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and I just I think I’ve just learned
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what I’m good at and learned to focus on
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those things and and try to you know
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utilize those skills to now you know not
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just be an entrepreneur but probably
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more often now invest in and help other
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entrepreneurs
@edit name A little more than two sentences right?
Alex hahahaha you just did all of that? I think you should take marks advice, and not waste time like this and instead grow ur business and make money LOL
Mark Cuban is responsible for one of the worst deals Yahoo has ever made and yet gives advice on Yahoo.
@Ethan Richards well obviously?
Exactly this guy basically won the lottery and he is everywhere giving advice…
@2ndrwkng So how can you say he’s responsible for the bad deal when yahoo took the deal? Yahoo is responsible for a bad deal because it was only a bad deal to them
@Ethan Richards dude I was making a statement I believe everyone understands. Of course the deal was bad for them and not for him.
I would easily say it is yahoo who is responsible. Cuban had nothing to do with it. He’s just the benefactor!
lol Biden has no chance. The guy is known for sniffing little kids hair and being inappropriate around children.
Weird looking human.
Buy a house to improve your wealth? That’s some 2007 style thinking my dear Mark… We know what happened when a lot of people thought that buying stuff was them becoming wealthier
I love Mark…i sent him an email 10 years ago and he responded to me he’s a classy guy.
Dope
What did you ask and how did he reply?
@chops386 I read his book we had some commonalities he just replied back it was short and cool
May I ask what his email is?
@Anish Reddy just google it
‘You just need to buy a really cool domain and be lucky asf to sell it as a company at the peak of the dotcom bubble’ – Mark Cuban
Mark lies a lot
I’ve noticed Cuban going on this re-branding campaign to change his image after the sexual misconduct/racist debacle with the business side of the Mavericks last year. Now he’s this financial guru & Tony Stark hybrid that gives wise old sage advice….PASS!!! This is P/R consulting at it’s finest….the man states that he didn’t have a clue for 20 years that his organization was a damn misogynistic & racist frat house that he never visited the business side; even after winning a ring in 2011…WHATEVER!!! Cuban is not Warren Buffett or even Steve Ballmer for that matter; he’s just a guy that hit on the internet bubble at the perfect time…Kudos, for him. But, yelling at refs, Shark Tank and finger waving at Trump doesn’t scream genius innovator…I’m not impressed.
He jewish anyway and that racist tactic ain’t gonna work on him HAHAHAHAH
Mark if you ever look at these comments…I don’t vote but I would actively vote for you
Step 1: get extremely lucky when yahoo makes a terrible decision to buy your start-up.
Step 2: be successful.
streetsweeper49 lol who said that you listen to us, go short uber now!
@streetsweeper49 I’m aware of him have a few million before, but going from multi-million to 4 billion is a pretty big jump
More likely to be lucky when your constantly doing things
Adam Vital lol uber is up since he commented😂 opinion are dime a dozen, facts shine … price is king
Another guy lol https://youtu.be/b7NLeoyAUOc 😂
Lol sell your crap company to yahoo in dot com – get lucky.. this is what it takes and then put yahoo on losing streak from there on
As a conservative Christian this is they only Democrat i fear, but wouldn’t mind him being president…
I’m sure he’s an independent
@Rock N where in the world are you getting your information from?
@Mike C reality go look it up.
Mark cuban is a conservative tho. dude ain’t gonna admit it on yahoo
What is Mark talking about? America has a shit ton of problems, rampant excessive consumerism, psychopaths trying to start wars that we don’t want, a car dystopian nightmare that has consumed our nation and turned it into a f*cking parking lot. The guy needs to stop being naive. We’re not just bitching for no reason. We want the elites to stop controlling everything we do and dictating what kinds of lives we live. Is that too hard to ask?
This is from a while back right?
interesting this is what I need to know thanks mark
Marc ( a little million dollar fund ) Cuban vs Donald ( a small loan of a million dollars ) Trump
Cuban for “fcking” president! Definitely got my vote.
Cuban for UK PM!
Yahboobay
❤️ I completely understand his way of thinking it is nice to see someone who thinks the way I do.
What Mark said about running for president is what Trump said about running too.
39:04 It’s important not to give a shit.
Mark lowkey super smart I love it lol
THE SEC CONTROLS OUR INTERNET BUT CAN’T UPDATE DOCUMENTS OR FILES FROM 1980???????
And they wonder why they can’t compete with Facebook… y’all don’t even know how to refresh your webpage, but expect to solve this privacy crisis….lmao
JOE is TOO OLD, He will drop dead in his first Term
Not nice. Don’t be an agist. I’d take a 90-year-old Biden over Trump any day.
Mark’s take on the SEC and other issues are bang on! Give guidance before taking to court
Love Elon Musk and his innovative spirit!
Great 👍🏿 interview!
Despite all the hate in comments and around Mr. Cuban, he is one ☝️ of the STARS, and US should be proud of him.
My takeaway, JUST BE YOURSELF!
Just being yourself works after you have your first million, but you have to hustle your ass off and have a burning desire to succeed before then!
How will AI make computer science degrees useless?
Cuban is brilliant.
So true about breaking up the tech companies. Would be a grave mistake and something China and Russia are praying we do.
Such a hypocrite channel. Motherfuckers are wooing viewers with the wrong title when the interview is completely about something else.
easy to do when rich.
Run, Mark, run. Libertarian.
CUBAN 2020 !!
C’mon make it HAPPEN
I ❤️ Mark Cuban. If I were to get married it would have to be to someone like him. The billionaire thing is cool but in general this is a man that has it figured out
You’d marry a melted candle?
Cuban might be a good President.
Cuban is a great guy!
Mark is an amazing person, however I don’t think he could even be close to making it in a run for presidency. His speech is way over the heads of 80% of the american population. I think most people would consider him boring. Americans need to be entertained.
Good point. Sadly true. Things have to be so child like simple for a large swath of America.
The man is a freakin genius, and one heck of an American.
BIDEN WILL DROP OUT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR
Nah. He has broader appeal than any of the others. His age is not a problem.
@Gregory Larry I agree 100% with you regarding his broader appeal and age. But you have to remember how dirty the democrats play and they have something up their sleeve they will be dropping before too long.
Hey Mark setup for Kawhi when he gets free with the foundation you have been working with he is looking to finish as a solo winning legend due to the popovich control issues he will go to you and ask because of what you have built he is the finish give 3 years is what he wants brotha you know he will stand out there 😉 if you know what I mean you see the pattern cube
LOS ANGELES LATINOS 4 TRUMP
Love this!
Who is this guy?
Lol buddy
When the title says “Cuban on enterainment ventures, creating content” classic typo
Cuban 2020!
Screw you with your ads you failed, pathetic company
Why does Mark have “small” body language and won’t look at his interviewer when he’s talking or listening?
I love how the slid in that whole deal with Yahoo in there
Yang Gang 2020
This guy is presidential material!
Cuban is simply brilliant
Radio on the fucking internet, lol
Mark as president hell yea
i feel like my brain has doubled in size
That moment when you interview someone you gave a billion dollars how he did it… Nice
5.7 billions =)
Lol
The intro music sounds like an old school modem to me, yahoo still stuck in the past, but greatfull for the interview, lol!
DaShawn is the A.I god mode lol
No wonder these are only 3 digits of comments. Come on, aim to our theme of the video instead of picking up the most sensitive polical issue as an opening. The interviewer is not very professional at all…..out of here……STF…..
54 dislikes from SEC employees
👍👍👍
I’m about to start trying harder on being more successful
His eyes obviously tell that he’s not happy. I wish he’ll get real happiness from meditation.
Has a billion dollars. Looks like a melting candle.
Well he is 61 years old! One year older than Andy…
Great interview!
The title of this video, “Mark Cuban talks about what it takes to be successful with anything”, is misleading, and flat-out wrong. The entire interview is about Cuban’s thoughts on current events.
JMFS thank you
I adore this man! Great minds think alike.
Thank you for the interview, well-manages 👍
Mark Cuban is one of my favorite poeple ever
He dresses like your average neighborhood dad / sports spectator (on the weekend lounging around the house) – except he’s a billionaire who owns the team on his graphic tee – so he can pull it off.
What about the 5 G concerns regarding phones? What pick up and receive will a robot have ? Electromagnetic is scary stuff you sure this won’t cause an awful lot of cancer? Phones do the pick up and receive a robot will require how much more electric? So if you can find a way around this or already have for me I would want to know that the environment robots are in are of at least some concern?
What if we had 3 presidents
I’m a moderate, I’d probably give him my vote for president – he’s real. I don’t care if he’s a Dem or Rep.
In comparison, Howard Schultz (former Starbucks CEO), was too slow and terribly fake in his interviews.
sell out. viva che!
He is probably the most down to earth billionaire ever. He gets my vote.
The clowns at Yahoo who bought Mark’s streaming media company were totally clueless!
Yahoo interviews a guy they payed 5.7billion to and then pop the question how did he do it LOL
@Matic Ferlan Ha ha…..
8:33 don’t start with machine learning you need to first understand the language because you will end up copying a lot of tutorials and not know what any of them mean. so start with a hello world program then go on to say a calculator or basic data manipulation then do some starter projects introducing other technologies, then finally do ML that will allow you to fully understand what you are doing when you are “training a model” or finding “non-biased training data” and know why those things are important. And finally I would recommend once you do machine learning with python to move on the a language like c++ or java ( preferably c++ ) and then learning concepts like memory management and stuff like that so you can develop more efficient algorithms for machine learning, and data manipulation which will allow you to fully understand what your computer is doing when you run AI. And whatever you do don’t signup for online classes and buy books just use youtube and stack overflow. self taught is the way to go.
He defines himself as a grinder right after saying back up for the beautiful women in dallas
Mark sounds like he’d be Yang Gang with the automation talk
Mark Cuban and ALL the WOKE sports world think that advertisers will continue to pay triple the cost to advertise when their ratings are dropping in half and more! Mark Cuban also thinks is ok for the CCP to run the NBA and get away with all their crimes against humanity! This is ALL about money people! Wake up and follow the money 🙏🏾🇺🇸🙏🏾
Good point about Chinese companies. I was living in China when Alibaba went public. I was so surprised that Jack Ma chose to sell shares on the NYSE. Chinese companies can take advantage of free markets in the West.