#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
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4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Mark's X: https://twitter.com/mcuban
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Shark Tank: https://abc.com/shows/shark-tank
Dallas Mavericks: https://www.mavs.com
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(11:10) - Entrepreneurship
(26:03) - Shark Tank
(36:29) - How Mark made first billion
(1:02:39) - Dallas Mavericks
(1:08:05) - DEI debate
(1:43:58) - Trump vs Biden
(1:46:20) - Immigration
(1:55:53) - Drugs and Big Pharma
(2:11:53) - AI
(2:16:05) - Advice for young people
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Mark Cuban, a multi-billionaire businessman, |
| 0:04.7 | an investor and star of the series Shark Tank, longtime principal owner of the Dallas Mavericks, |
| 0:10.0 | and is someone who is unafraid to get into frequent battles on X, most recently over topics |
| 0:16.9 | of DEI, wokism, gender, and identity politics with the likes of Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson. |
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| 1:16.0 | An app, a website that allows you to listen to academic papers, |
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