Mark Cuban on Why AI Could Turn Solo Founders Into Trillionaires
Mark Cuban joins a16z to explain how Cost Plus Drugs and direct contracts aim to fix broken healthcare economics, and why he believes AI makes now the best time ever to be an entrepreneur.
The gist
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Cuban urges employers to run benefits contracts through AI to find where they are being ripped off, and he uses agents on several plans, including Gemini.
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Cuban had ChatGPT design a cheaper, GLP-1 friendly rival to a food executive's top cookie, with a full bill of materials, in about 3 minutes.
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Cuban says nonprofit hospitals must offer financial assistance, sometimes up to 600% of the federal poverty level, and suggests using AI to find them.
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On policy, Cuban would make all contracts involving taxpayer money public and let cheaper out-of-pocket purchases count toward deductibles, as eight states partly do.
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Cuban tells founders to talk freely with AI, compare answers across models, and use it to learn rather than to avoid learning.
"And then I have the Gemini plan. And then I have OpenAI's plan, etc. etc. And I use the agents and I say you go out and find me every state entity organization enterprise that has an open records opportunity."
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See all on the Gemini page"I'm running my existing contract through AI and I'm using a prompt that asks a single question. Where are they [ __ ] me over? What should I do about it? And within 30 seconds, you're going to see bam, bam, bam... the quickest way for that startup, that tech company, maybe dep..."
▶ Play at 18:59"Let's take your number one product, your cookie, right? And I'm going to ask ChatGPT to create a competitor that is more GLP-1 friendly and will be priced lower. And I want a full bill of materials. I want sources, everything manufacturing. And in about 3 minutes we got back t..."
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"I'm running my existing contract through AI and I'm using a prompt that asks a single question. Where are they [ __ ] me over? What should I do about it? And within 30 seconds, ..."
"Let's take your number one product, your cookie, right? And I'm going to ask ChatGPT to create a competitor that is more GLP-1 friendly and will be priced lower. And I want a fu..."
"And then I have the Gemini plan. And then I have OpenAI's plan, etc. etc. And I use the agents and I say you go out and find me every state entity organization enterprise that h..."
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