Jeff Bezos doesn’t let his responsibilities — executive chairman of Amazon, owner of Blue Origin, being a billionaire investor — get in the way of his slow-moving morning routine. The 60-year-old kicks off every day like a lot of people do: dragging his feet and scrolling on his smartphone, he recently told the “Lex Fridman Podcast.” … Read more
Mark Cuban has a simple tactic for inspiring young kids — and getting them to think about their own limitations, or lack thereof. And he uses it often, he says. “I get emails [from] kids around the world, because ‘Shark Tank’ is shown everywhere, asking me business questions,” Cuban recently told the “Lex Fridman Podcast.” … Read more
Elon Musk is no stranger to court proceedings, but you wouldn’t know that reading this deposition that was released Monday. Musk was deposed in a lawsuit over the Tesla CEO falsely tweeting that a college kid from a different state was secretly a federal agent sent to disguise himself as a neo-Nazi and start a … Read more
Some people celebrate big career wins by splurging on a Rolex watch. Not Mark Cuban. At age 32, he sold his first startup — a software company called MicroSolutions — for $6 million. That same day, he took off his watch and threw it away, he said at a SXSW panel earlier this month. It … Read more
If you ask Saphira and Maurizio Rasti, the way to a “Shark Tank” star’s heart is through their stomach. The Costa Mesa, California-based husband-and-wife duo brought investors treats from their business, Nowhere Bakery, on Friday’s episode of the ABC television show. The pair launched their bakery with $400 in March 2020, two weeks before the … Read more
After leaving engineering jobs at Amazon three years ago, Brett Skaloud and Jeff Feiereisen built a showerhead startup with social media virality, thousands of customers and $5 million in projected annual revenue. They still couldn’t land a deal on Friday’s episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank” due to making what billionaire investor Mark Cuban referred to … Read more
Age is just a number, if you ask Mark Cuban. The 65-year-old billionaire says he now regrets stressing about his age every time he hit a big numerical milestone. “People always ask me what I would do differently in my life. Just one thing: I wish I hadn’t thought I was getting old at every … Read more
Barbara Corcoran turned an unpleasant retail experience into a business lesson she still uses today. Years ago, while shopping with her brother, the millionaire co-star of ABC’s “Shark Tank” encountered a sales associate who left a bad taste in her mouth, she said in a recent TikTok video. “[I was] trying to pay for a … Read more
Some people swear a productive day starts at 4 a.m. Others sleep on factory floors to ensure work gets done. Not Mark Cuban. The billionaire serial entrepreneur and investor wakes up between 6:30 and 7 a.m and, without getting out of bed, spends an hour responding to emails, he told comedian Trevor Noah on a … Read more
Mark Cuban once pictured himself running a major corporation — until he started his first job out of college. After Cuban graduated from the University of Indiana in 1981, he was hired at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, he recently said on Trevor Noah’s “What Now?” podcast. He liked the job almost immediately, feeling comfortable enough … Read more
