Ep. 389 — Mark Cuban

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Mark Cuban is an entrepreneur, television personality, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He joins David to discuss the origins of his entrepreneurial spirit, what he learned from his early failures in business, his assessment of Donald Trump’s presidency, and whether he sees politics in his own future. He also shares his reflections on this difficult moment in our country, what inspired him to join the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, and how he is challenging himself to recognize his own privilege.

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with
0:12.5	your host David Axelrod.
0:20.0	There are many iterations of Mark Cuban.
0:23.3	Sports fans know him as the flamboyant owner of the Dallas Mavericks, television fans,
0:28.9	know him as one of the sharks on the highly rated TV show Shark Tank.
0:33.3	The business world knows him as an early innovator in internet technology.
0:37.7	He's also been outspoken on public issues lately, and I sat down with him this week to talk
0:42.8	about all of this.
0:43.8	Here's that conversation.
0:53.2	Our Cuban really, really great to see you.
0:56.5	Tough time to be getting together for our country.
0:59.7	I saw you were out at a prayer vigil on Sunday.
1:03.4	Tell me what moved you to be there.
1:05.7	Well, a couple of our players just said that they were, they talked about wanting to go
1:11.2	down and would I go with them and it was an easy yes.
1:15.2	And you know, all of Dallas is hurting, but in particular the minority community and
1:20.0	I just wanted to show support and I didn't go to speak.
1:23.4	I just went to listen and just let people know we cared.
1:27.0	You also, well, I should ask you, what were your impressions when you were there?
1:32.5	You know, you could tell people were in pain and people, things were difficult and
1:38.4	people were uncertain about what would come next, you know, would it get worse, would
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