Just get me in the game. I'll be good. You know, let me just play, and then I'll get my just rewards at that point. I've had the door slammed on me. I've had, you know, people laugh at me. I've had people just turn their backs on me. And I was just telling myself, okay, that's one note out of the way that gets me closer to a yes. From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing all of us.

Everybody knows Mark Cuban.

Even if you don't know exactly why you know the name Mark Cuban, you do.

If his name were a brand, it would stand for confidence, success, and the ease of dispensing

advice that everybody wants.

I mean, seriously, you want to sit down at the table with this guy.

And that's exactly what we're going to do today.

Now, who is Mark Cuban exactly?

Mark founded one of the original internet streaming sites,

broadcast.com. He owned the Dallas Mavericks, the basketball team, for 23 years. But really,

you probably know him from TV. Mark was on the show Shark Tank for 15 seasons. That's

one five. He and his fellow sharks would dispense business advice

and offer life-changing deals to entrepreneurs. Last month, we invited Mark Cuban to come into our

studio for a special conversation for our premium members. It was alive. One of those conversations

where lots of folks who were watching also got to ask questions.

The energy was electric. And if you want to see the whole thing, you can. I'll drop a link in the show notes. And if you're a premium member, voila, you can see it.

I wanted to bring you my favorite parts of this conversation in today's episode. Here's Mark Cuban.

I always get to about risks specifically, and to me, whether it was starting a business

or investing in a business, if I knew my stuff, right, if I was prepared, it wasn't a risk.

You know, the risk comes from lack of knowledge, lack of preparation.

I think people think that there's just a stream of opportunities that come, you know, the risk comes from lack of knowledge, lack of preparation. I think people think that

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