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Mark Cuban

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And so I would get into fights with the NBA, put aside the refs, but getting inside and fights in the NBA, I would say NBA, nothing but attorneys, right? Because they had no marketing skills whatsoever. And to their credit, they realized that was a problem and started bringing in better and better and better marketing people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And so I would get into fights with the NBA, put aside the refs, but getting inside and fights in the NBA, I would say NBA, nothing but attorneys, right? Because they had no marketing skills whatsoever. And to their credit, they realized that was a problem and started bringing in better and better and better marketing people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And so I would get into fights with the NBA, put aside the refs, but getting inside and fights in the NBA, I would say NBA, nothing but attorneys, right? Because they had no marketing skills whatsoever. And to their credit, they realized that was a problem and started bringing in better and better and better marketing people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So have you ever been to an NBA game? Miami Heat. Do you remember walking into the arena and you feel the energy, right? That's what makes it special. Yeah, the energy is everything, especially playoff games. Right, for sure, right? And even a regular season game, right? Even against the worst team, you know, that's where we get, you know,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So have you ever been to an NBA game? Miami Heat. Do you remember walking into the arena and you feel the energy, right? That's what makes it special. Yeah, the energy is everything, especially playoff games. Right, for sure, right? And even a regular season game, right? Even against the worst team, you know, that's where we get, you know,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So have you ever been to an NBA game? Miami Heat. Do you remember walking into the arena and you feel the energy, right? That's what makes it special. Yeah, the energy is everything, especially playoff games. Right, for sure, right? And even a regular season game, right? Even against the worst team, you know, that's where we get, you know,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Because the tickets tend to be a little bit cheaper on the resale market, that's where parents will bring their kids. And so you hear kids screaming the entire game. And the parents are thrilled to death, right? They got to do something with their kids. The kids are thrilled to death because they got to see basketball, an NBA game, and scream at the top of their lungs.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Because the tickets tend to be a little bit cheaper on the resale market, that's where parents will bring their kids. And so you hear kids screaming the entire game. And the parents are thrilled to death, right? They got to do something with their kids. The kids are thrilled to death because they got to see basketball, an NBA game, and scream at the top of their lungs.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Because the tickets tend to be a little bit cheaper on the resale market, that's where parents will bring their kids. And so you hear kids screaming the entire game. And the parents are thrilled to death, right? They got to do something with their kids. The kids are thrilled to death because they got to see basketball, an NBA game, and scream at the top of their lungs.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And, you know, if it turns out to be a close game and that ball's in the air, and if it goes in, you know, everybody's hugging and high-fiving people you've never seen before in your life. And if it misses, you're commiserating with people you've never seen before. That's such a unique experience that's unique to sports. And we never sold that. And that's exactly what we started selling.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And, you know, if it turns out to be a close game and that ball's in the air, and if it goes in, you know, everybody's hugging and high-fiving people you've never seen before in your life. And if it misses, you're commiserating with people you've never seen before. That's such a unique experience that's unique to sports. And we never sold that. And that's exactly what we started selling.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And, you know, if it turns out to be a close game and that ball's in the air, and if it goes in, you know, everybody's hugging and high-fiving people you've never seen before in your life. And if it misses, you're commiserating with people you've never seen before. That's such a unique experience that's unique to sports. And we never sold that. And that's exactly what we started selling.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Yeah, the energy in a stadium is completely different than the energy in an arena. You know, in a stadium, particularly if it doesn't have a roof, it's hard to bottle that energy. You feel it and you see, like I'm from Pittsburgh, so there's the terrible towels and people screaming defense and everything at Steelers games. But in an arena, the energy level is just...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Yeah, the energy in a stadium is completely different than the energy in an arena. You know, in a stadium, particularly if it doesn't have a roof, it's hard to bottle that energy. You feel it and you see, like I'm from Pittsburgh, so there's the terrible towels and people screaming defense and everything at Steelers games. But in an arena, the energy level is just...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Yeah, the energy in a stadium is completely different than the energy in an arena. You know, in a stadium, particularly if it doesn't have a roof, it's hard to bottle that energy. You feel it and you see, like I'm from Pittsburgh, so there's the terrible towels and people screaming defense and everything at Steelers games. But in an arena, the energy level is just...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

indescribable so how much of it is the selling the tickets in person but also versus what you see on tv so when you're owning a team do you get any of the cut for the what's shown on tv yeah yeah we yeah so that there's a tv deal that's done with either a local tv broadcaster and we get all that or um a network broadcaster like abcc um espn tnt whatever and then we get 1 30th of that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

indescribable so how much of it is the selling the tickets in person but also versus what you see on tv so when you're owning a team do you get any of the cut for the what's shown on tv yeah yeah we yeah so that there's a tv deal that's done with either a local tv broadcaster and we get all that or um a network broadcaster like abcc um espn tnt whatever and then we get 1 30th of that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

indescribable so how much of it is the selling the tickets in person but also versus what you see on tv so when you're owning a team do you get any of the cut for the what's shown on tv yeah yeah we yeah so that there's a tv deal that's done with either a local tv broadcaster and we get all that or um a network broadcaster like abcc um espn tnt whatever and then we get 1 30th of that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

so what role does the tv play in like turning it keeps fans connected look when the team is doing really well it's easy right there's more viewers everybody's more excited um and when you're not it's you know there's still gonna be hardcore fans and and you know general fans and kids that like to watch the game what about like the personality of the people in the in the stands like i mean clearly you're part of the legend of the team

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

so what role does the tv play in like turning it keeps fans connected look when the team is doing really well it's easy right there's more viewers everybody's more excited um and when you're not it's you know there's still gonna be hardcore fans and and you know general fans and kids that like to watch the game what about like the personality of the people in the in the stands like i mean clearly you're part of the legend of the team