Dallas Mavericks proprietor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban revealed he’s planning to depart “Shark Tank” after filming yet another season of the present.
Since 2011, Cuban has appeared on ABC’s “Shark Tank” as a everlasting investor, or “shark,” listening to pitches from small enterprise homeowners to spend money on their corporations.
“That is our fifteenth 12 months. Subsequent 12 months, sixteenth 12 months, goes to be my final 12 months,” Cuban mentioned final week on Showtime Basketball’s “All The Smoke” podcast, hosted by former NBA gamers Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes. “So yet another 12 months to go. It is time.”
Throughout his time on the present, Cuban mentioned he has invested in lots of of corporations, together with BeatBox Drinks and DudeWipes — two corporations he mentioned are performing properly.
The 65-year-old billionaire mentioned he loves that the present is ready to assist common individuals kickstart their enterprise ventures, encourage viewers and remind its viewers that the “American dream is alive and properly.”
“In doing ‘Shark Tank’ all these years, we have educated a technology of entrepreneurs, a number of generations of entrepreneurs, that if anyone can come from Iowa or Sacramento or wherever, and present up on the carpet on ‘Shark Tank,’ and present their enterprise and get a deal, that is going to encourage generations of children, proper?” Cuban mentioned on the podcast.
The entrepreneur mentioned his “Shark Tank” investments have, for probably the most half, been profitable. Nonetheless, he mentioned they’re presently “down somewhat bit” on a money foundation, however “manner up” on a mark-to-market foundation, which measures the present truthful worth of an organization.
Cuban stars on “Shark Tank” alongside Robert Herjavec, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John and Lori Greiner.
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