Mark Cuban is done with Shark Tank. He’s sold his majority stake in the Dallas Mavs. Is this a midlife crisis? “The exact opposite,” he tells WIRED’s Lauren Goode. In fact, his new mission is to fight Pharma’s middlemen to “change healthcare” in the US.
His new obsession started after a radiologist cold pitched his Pharma startup to sell generic drugs for as much as they cost to make or buy. Cuban invested $250,000. Two years later, Cuban had invested so much that he owned the company. What excited Cuban was the way the radiologist wanted to subvert the middlemen in America’s famously contorted health system.
Besides disrupting Pharma, the 66-year-old is also quite online. And Twitter—now Elon Musk’s X—is a playground. “They’re fun to fuck with,” he says of Musk and the right-wing trolls sprawling on the platform. And being it comes to being outspoken online, Cuban has vocally supported for Kamala Harris to win the 2024 election. But what has he been wrong about? “Donald Trump. I thought there was no chance he’d get elected.” Why? “Because I know the guy.
“You can get past your own midlife crisis, your own mortality. Because you get to the point where you realize, “Hey, if I have 20 years left, 30 years left, that’s good—and I’m not going to fuck it up.”
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Mark Cuban is done with Shark Tank. He’s sold his majority stake in the Dallas Mavs. Is this a midlife crisis? “The exact opposite,” he tells WIRED’s Lauren Goode. In fact, his new mission is to fight Pharma’s middlemen to “change healthcare” in the US.
His new obsession started after a radiologist cold pitched his Pharma startup to sell generic drugs for as much as they cost to make or buy. Cuban invested $250,000. Two years later, Cuban had invested so much that he owned the company. What excited Cuban was the way the radiologist wanted to subvert the middlemen in America’s famously contorted health system.
Besides disrupting Pharma, the 66-year-old is also quite online. And Twitter—now Elon Musk’s X—is a playground. “They’re fun to fuck with,” he says of Musk and the right-wing trolls sprawling on the platform. And being it comes to being outspoken online, Cuban has vocally supported for Kamala Harris to win the 2024 election. But what has he been wrong about? “Donald Trump. I thought there was no chance he’d get elected.” Why? “Because I know the guy.
“You can get past your own midlife crisis, your own mortality. Because you get to the point where you realize, “Hey, if I have 20 years left, 30 years left, that’s good—and I’m not going to fuck it up.”
The Big Interview here: [https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-after-shark-tank-mark-cuban-just-wants-to-break-shit-especially-the-prescription-drug-industry/](https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-after-shark-tank-mark-cuban-just-wants-to-break-shit-especially-the-prescription-drug-industry/)
I generally dislike all billionaires, but he is one of the few I kinda like.