"Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban on investing, sports gambling and how he helped Elon Musk

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Mark Cuban talks with Recode's Peter Kafka in this live interview recorded at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. In this episode: Who can beat Trump in 2020?; why Cuban was spotted talking with Steve Bannon in 2016; behind the scenes of Shark Tank; how the TV business has changed and what happens now that tech is getting into TV; the moats protecting legacy TV studios and Time Warner's new owner AT&T the potential of 5G for sports and entertainment; should sports streaming rights be broken up?; online sports gambling; sexual harassment at the Dallas Mavericks; what areas in tech is Cuban most excited about now?; why everyone has to understand AI; Elon Musk and the SEC; how much do regular people really care about privacy?; and why "treating people equally doesn't mean treating everybody the same." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:40.1	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me, Peter Kafka. I'm the one speaking to you.
2:01.0	I'm part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm here at Vox Media Head headquarters in New York City, but not for very long because we are going to Austin, Texas, where South by Southwest is held, and that is where I talk to Mark Cuban. I don't really need to tell you who Mark Cuban is. He's on Shark Tank. He owns the Dallas Mavericks. He made a gazillion dollars in the first dot-com boom. Mark and I spoke at Vox Media's the Deep End, which is this cool space they set up.
2:05.3	He's a ton of fun to talk to, a ton of fun to listen to.
2:07.8	So let's get right to it.
2:13.5	Hi, guys.
2:14.7	Everyone here at me?
2:16.2	I do a lot of these interviews now, either on stage like this or at our own conferences
2:20.3	or podcasts.
2:21.3	And the thing I've learned over years is the best guest you can ever have is a billionaire who
2:27.3	owns his or her own company because they can say whatever they want.
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