Mark Cuban on the presidency and the future of American business

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On the first episode of Decoder, Nilay Patel interviews Mark Cuban. Mark is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he’s a tech investor, and is on the hit show, Shark Tank. The conversation, recorded as last week’s election results rolled in, covers how interwoven business, technology, and policy are, whether its 5G, or the NBA bubble, or AI, or his investments into healthcare -- if you want to understand the landscape of the future, you have to understand tech, you have to understand business, and you have to understand policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.0	Hello, and welcome to the first episode of DeCoder.
0:34.4	I'm Neil Appetel, Editor-in-Chief of the Verge, and DeCoder is my new podcast about big ideas and other problems.
0:40.8	I'll be interviewing executives, policymakers, academics, some other assorted troublemakers about what it takes to build the businesses of the future.
0:48.0	I've spent over a decade covering tech, and I am more convinced than ever that every business is a tech business.
0:54.0	With some familiar problems to solve, and some big new opportunities to seize.
0:58.2	So I'm very excited that my first interview on DeCoder is with Mark Cuban.
1:02.5	Mark is the owner of the Dallas Maverick, he's a tech investor, and yeah, he's on Shark Tank.
1:07.1	Rejoice Shark Tank Nation.
1:09.4	Rejoice!
1:12.0	Now, Mark and I have known each other for a little while, and one of the reasons I was excited to have him as my first guest
1:17.4	is because we disagree on some things, and we enjoy disagreeing with each other.
1:21.5	One of my goals with this show is to have my own beliefs challenged, and Mark is pretty good at challenging your beliefs.
1:27.6	We recorded this conversation just after it had become clear that Joe Biden would win the presidential election,
1:32.4	and we talked about what it's going to take to build a new future.
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