Mark Cuban: The Brutal Truth About The Next Market Crash!
Mark Cuban joins Steven Bartlett to talk about selling, getting great at one thing, why he thinks AI is useful but not smart, a possible AI debt bubble, and why family led him to sell the Mavs.
The gist
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Cuban says selling garbage bags door-to-door at 12, bought for $3 and sold for $6, taught him that anyone who can sell can do anything.
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Citing the book Why Men Rebel, Cuban says frustration at the gap between hopes and reality is normal but shouldn't take over your life.
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Cuban says AI is not smart, just predicting the next word, and pushes back on Bartlett's self-driving Tesla by pointing to adversarial tricks.
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Cuban sees a bubble where everything trades like a meme stock and hyperscalers borrow more than they make, so he advises keeping some cash.
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After selling MicroSolutions, Cuban bought a lifetime American Airlines pass; he says money never changed him, and family drove him to sell the Mavs.
"I read this book in high school. It was called Why Men Rebel. And it said, 'Most people have aspirations that are up here, and when their real lives they feel like are down here,' a lot of people won't just accept it."
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"Even think about full self-driving. Like my Tesla drives itself and apparently the crash rate is significantly lower than if a human was driving."
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See all on the Tesla Full Self-Driving page"I did the exact opposite. I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines. And my mission was to go out there and get as [ __ ] up as possible with as many people as possible in as many countries as possible."
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"Now, I don't go grab a book, right? I just go right to, you know, Claude or Cowork and I'm like, find all about this and tell me what Warren Buffett thought about that. It's ins..."
"I read this book in high school. It was called Why Men Rebel. And it said, 'Most people have aspirations that are up here, and when their real lives they feel like are down here..."
"Even think about full self-driving. Like my Tesla drives itself and apparently the crash rate is significantly lower than if a human was driving."
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4 picks · guest
"Now, I don't go grab a book, right? I just go right to, you know, Claude or Cowork and I'm like, find all about this and tell me what Warren Buffett thought about that. It's ins..."
"I read this book in high school. It was called Why Men Rebel. And it said, 'Most people have aspirations that are up here, and when their real lives they feel like are down here..."
"I did the exact opposite. I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines. And my mission was to go out there and get as [ __ ] up as possible with as many people as possible in a..."
Steven Bartlett
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"Even think about full self-driving. Like my Tesla drives itself and apparently the crash rate is significantly lower than if a human was driving."
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