Pioneers of AI: Mark Cuban’s investment strategy in this new era of tech
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Mark Cuban has spent decades as a serial entrepreneur and investor, with one of the best track records on the planet (including celebrity status on ABC’s Shark Tank). In this episode of Pioneers of AI, Cuban joins host Rana El Kaliouby for a wide-ranging conversation about whether we are in an AI bubble, how he’s applying his investment philosophy to AI, and why the AI world is tending to excite him less and less each day.
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| 1:25.3 | We're just a few days from 2026, and so we want to share a special |
| 1:29.9 | gift for our year-end episode. It's a conversation with the iconic Mark Cuban, conducted by my friend |
| 1:37.0 | and colleague Rana El Caliubi. This episode originally ran as part of Rana's terrific |
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