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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Mark Cuban: US Billionaire Businessman on the state of NZ rugby, NBA, US politics, AI
Description: Mark Cuban has his hands in all sorts of pies. The US billionaire businessman is involved with tech, media, health insurance, the NBA, and more recently, politics. He got his first major start with the media company Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo in 1999 for US$5.7 billion worth of stock. The next year he got into the NBA, buying the Dallas Mavericks for US$280 million, selling a majority stake of the team in late 2023 for $3.5 billion. Cuban has become something of an authority on sports, and while he’s not famili...