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At 65, Mark Cuban has shown no signs of slowing down despite selling his majority interest in the Dallas Mavericks and stepping away from "Shark Tank."
The billionaire entrepreneur is the ultimate disrupter, whether that be bringing “radio” to the internet or challenging the conventionalities of the NBA.
More recently, his Cost Plus Drugs, an online discount pharmacy offering generic medications at a modest markup, is designed, he said frankly, to “f--- up” Big Pharma.
“I wouldn’t call myself iconoclastic,” Cuban said in an interview late last year in GQ. “What I would say is, from an entrepreneurial perspective, I always look for ways to disrupt things.”
Cuban made news in 2023 by selling his majority stake in the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks to the Adelson and Dumont families, who run the Las Vegas Sands Corp., for about $3.5 billion. The sale was approved in late December. Miriam Adelson is the controlling shareholder of Las Vegas Sands, founded by her late husband Sheldon Adelson.
Cuban maintained a 27% interest in the Mavericks. He will also continue to oversee basketall operations.
It was from basketball that he said he learned a valuable piece of advice that he adopted.
“Something I heard from a player that I’ve repeated many times is, ‘Practice until you can’t get it wrong.’ One from Dirk Nowitski was, ‘How you do anything is how you do everything.’ My kids are so tired of me saying that. Practice till you can’t get it wrong, whether it’s sales, whether it’s technology, programming, whatever it may be, you’ve got to keep on doing it and keep on doing it. Writing, do you believe that someone can become a better writer?
“Yeah. And it’s by effort. The more you do it, the better you get at it. A lot of people, particularly in sports, but in life as well, they take the shortcuts always. And they don’t do the little things and pay attention to the small details that allow them to separate themselves or differentiate themselves.
“We talked about how I like to get into an industry, how I like to learn new things, how I’m curious. That ongoing curiosity and effort, I really try to embody that as I approach work, even personal life. Everything. How you do anything is how you do everything. If you cut corners on the little things, you’ll cut corners on the big things.”