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Recode Decode: Investors Mark Cuban and Steve Case and talent agent Scooter Braun (Live)

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In these live interviews recorded at the 2019 SALT Conference in Las Vegas, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to investors Mark Cuban and Steve Case about the future of entrepreneurship and talent agent Scooter Braun about how tech is changing the entertainment business. In the Cuban/Case interview: The "third wave" of the internet and Case's "rise of the rest" theory; the state of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley; are startups really in decline?; how to properly train the next generation of startup founders; why Cuban believes everyone working at a startup should receive equity; how to make tech more diverse; and how does techlash change investing? And then, in the Braun interview: The impact of social media on Braun's work and the life of a touring musician; getting arrested on behalf of Justin Bieber; why sometimes, your gut should trump the data; playing power politics with Apple and Spotify; how Braun almost bought 10 percent of Facebook; and his investments in Uber, Lyft, and other tech companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you drive a Chevy electric vehicle, you're getting more than a way to get from point A to point B.

0:06.0

You're saying goodbye to gas stations and how low to open roads.

0:09.0

With the growing network of public charging stations, you'll be able to charge your EV while you shop, work, or do whatever you want to be doing with your time.

0:17.0

Chevy is making EVs for everyone, everywhere. Go to chevrelay.com slash electric to learn more.

0:24.0

Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.

0:32.0

How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief second life, and then was buried for good.

0:42.0

Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.

0:48.0

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, the editor at Large of Reco.

0:53.0

You may know me as someone who thinks there should be a TV show about child inventors trying to get funded by venture capitalists called Baby Shark Tank,

1:01.0

but in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Reco Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

1:06.0

Today we're going to play two live interviews I recently conducted in Las Vegas.

1:10.0

First, you'll hear my interview with investors Mark Cuban and Steve Case about a wide range of topics, including finding talent,

1:16.0

that is not in Silicon Valley. And later in the show we'll play my interview with Scooter Braun, a well-known manager and talent agent who represents celebrities like Ariana Grande, Kanye West, and Demi Lovato.

1:28.0

These interviews were recorded in front of a live audience at the Skybridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas, also known as Salt.

1:35.0

So let's go there now to hear these interviews starting with Mark Cuban and Steve Case.

1:41.0

So we're going to bring another chair out and we're going to bring out two people that I have met when they didn't have any money, which was a nicer time.

1:50.0

They were much nicer, but they are nice guys. And we're going to talk a little bit about where we're also going in innovation.

1:56.0

Anyway, so coming out right now, Mark Cuban, who wants to be known as an entrepreneur, who fucks up a lot of the time, and Steve Case, come on out.

2:11.0

Hi guys. Good to see you again.

2:15.0

What up, Cara? How you doing? I'm great. Good. So this is technology entrepreneur. I'm reading the headline here. Technology Entrepreneurship as a force for social progress.

2:26.0

You guys met how long ago? We all met 20 years ago. Over 20 years ago. So Steve backstage was telling me a story when you were trying to buy his company, right?

2:36.0

Well, he was trying to sell his company. We didn't consider buying it. He ended up selling it at the YAHU for $6 billion. And we thought that was a little high. Of course, we were not one of them.

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