So a couple months ago, I emailed Mark Cuban, one of the most public facing billionaires

in America asking if he talked to me.

And I'd actually been wanting to talk to him for a while.

He's vocal about politics publicly,

in a way that very few, very rich people actually are.

Cuban is an entrepreneur who's probably best known as the longtime owner of the

NBA stylus Mavericks and from his time as a shark on the hit reality show Shark Tank.

And these days he's at work on a health care site, an online pharmacy called Costs Plus Drugs.

But since Kamala Harris has entered the presidential race,

he's become a kind of surrogate for the Harris campaign,

participating in campaign calls, attending her recent economic speech in Pittsburgh,

and making the open case for Harris on social media.

And a big part of what he's trying to do

is convince fellow business-minded people and

rich people not to be scared of hairs.

So on Friday, when he told me he was ready to talk, I jumped at the opportunity.

Today, why did Mark Cuban go from the sidelines to an open advocate for Harris.

And considering many Americans still feel like they haven't learned enough

about her policies and beliefs.

What does it?

from the New York Times, I'm a Stette Herndon.

This is the run-up.

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