BIG INTV: Mark Cuban Would Still Have Dinner With Donald Trump
Uncanny Valley | WIRED
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4.1 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs, talks to Katie about the state of entrepreneurship, American healthcare, and tech under Trump. The investor campaigned for Kamala Harris, but thinks tech execs have a “moral imperative” to play nice with the president. Why? It’s good business.
Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics, finance, and business, from Alexis Ohanian's newest tech venture to the effects of inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on social protests.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wyard's big interview. I'm Katie Drummond. |
| 0:08.3 | He recently left Shark Tank after more than a decade, but that doesn't mean entrepreneur |
| 0:12.9 | and billionaire Mark Cuban is going anywhere. In fact, he's arguably more everywhere than ever. |
| 0:19.2 | You probably see him on TV, or you read his posts on Blue Sky, |
| 0:22.6 | or you listen to him on podcasts, including this one. |
| 0:26.6 | I sat down with Mark to talk about his latest effort to disrupt healthcare, |
| 0:30.6 | why he's all in on AI, |
| 0:32.6 | and whether or not he joined President Trump at the dinner table, |
| 0:35.6 | alongside tech execs like Tim Cook and Sam |
| 0:38.3 | Alman. Here's our conversation. |
| 0:48.8 | Mark Cuban, welcome to the big interview. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:52.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm delighted. And now, just so you know, well, it's too late now, but we always start these conversations with some rapid fire questions. |
| 1:00.2 | Like we're going to warm up. |
| 1:01.7 | That's warm up. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm making warm up gestures that nobody can see. Are you ready? |
| 1:05.7 | I'm ready. |
| 1:06.5 | All right. What is the smartest investment you ever made? |
| 1:10.4 | Myself. Ooh. What's the dumb smartest investment you ever made? Myself. |
| 1:11.3 | Ooh. What's the dumbest purchase you ever made? |
| 1:15.7 | A lot of alcohol. |
| 1:17.4 | Ooh. Do you still drink? |
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