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Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Mark Cuban

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Mark Cuban is a billionaire entrepreneur, lauded shark from the tank, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He's gone from selling trash bags door-to-door to private shoot arounds at American Airlines Arena. How did he turn bags to swishes? We talk about that –among advice to entrepreneurs and athletes alike. Get this, 30-40% of Shark Tank deals fall through during diligence. Mark tells us why. We go deep on a big tik tok prediction for the future of sports broadcast and media. And Luka Doncic just surpassed MJ for all-time triple doubles in the NBA...he's only 21. Mark tells us why. Thanks to our Presented By partners, Public.com and Outsystems for their support of the pod. You can start with $10 of free stock by registering today at Public.com/suitingup. And for more info on ways you can tie your business to Outsystems like the PLL did during our Championship Series, visit Outsystems.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome to episode one. This is season three. It's suiting up and we are presented by the lovely public.com and out systems. I'm your host Paul Rabel. Okay, one minute of boring recap just so those that are new can catch up and if you've downloaded the show before, let's go down memory lane.

0:23.3

We started recording in 2017.

0:25.8

Our first guest was Bill Bellacek.

0:27.8

I remember hopping on a flight to New England.

0:31.3

The podcast kid in hand, I was waiting outside of his office, I got invited in, it was the close of the trade window, it had just closed, and Bill looked at me with the podcast mics that were set up I'm not sure the hardware he was expecting

0:46.1

but he asked me so this is going to go on the internet and I was like yes

0:51.6

coach and possibly to a lot of people, so let's hold on the swearing.

0:57.6

But we did drop some F-bomb, so as a forewarning, Mark and I do a bit of the same, but it wasn't too egregious.

1:05.2

I was nervous about recording that first episode with Coach Bellachock and I felt the same way with all 77 guests that followed. It's a bit like preparing for a game.

1:16.5

You build a scout, you want to do really well, you want the people or the

1:20.0

listeners to enjoy it and it's live.

1:25.0

Though it's easier when you have good guests because you get into a flow state and I kind of think about guests in an interview process as teammates and in this case season

1:34.4

three's guests as such. So today's show we have Mark Cuban. There's an episode of

1:41.2

Shark Tank that I was watching in Prep where he immediately withdrew an investment when someone called him the cubes

1:47.9

And then my producer Brett looked at me and said well an entourage they referred him as the cubes and that was all good.

1:53.2

So I was confused but I did not call him cubes.

1:57.0

Okay?

1:58.0

His entrepreneurial story that was crazy.

2:02.0

And it's been told everywhere, especially if you're one of the over one billion network viewers that have watched the

2:08.6

257 episodes of Shark Tank that have aired on ABC.

2:13.0

So, short of it is that he's grinded from the very beginning.

2:18.0

Sold trash bags door-to-door, studies off in school,

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