# Mark Cuban

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/mark-cuban/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut 5 moments of Mark Cuban (Entrepreneur & investor, Cost Plus Drugs) talking, from an interview on The Diary Of A CEO published Oct 26, 2026.

- Role: Entrepreneur & investor, Cost Plus Drugs
- About: Led Dallas Mavericks to 2011 NBA title; built Cost Plus Drugs, the transparent online pharmacy, and Broadcast.com.
- On X: https://x.com/mcuban

## What Mark Cuban said

- [AI agents can expand output and create new work](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-agents-can-expand-output-and-create-new-work/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
  > “now I have an agent, every time they get sued, It comes to me and tells me.” — Mark Cuban · [42:31](https://realalpha.app/v/6VTSAs4Rsck/?t=2551)
- [AI predicts patterns but lacks human understanding](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-predicts-patterns-but-lacks-human-understanding/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Oct 26, 2026 · 7 min
  > “It just knows how to use statistics, basically, to predict the next word.” — Mark Cuban · [33:25](https://realalpha.app/v/6VTSAs4Rsck/?t=2005)
- [AI infrastructure debt could intensify a market downturn](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-infrastructure-debt-could-intensify-a-market-downturn/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Oct 26, 2026 · 5 min
  > “We literally could get into a debt bubble in the United States of America because there's so much debt being taken out by all these, you know, hyperscalers.” — Mark Cuban · [52:40](https://realalpha.app/v/6VTSAs4Rsck/?t=3160)
- [Profitability kept MicroSolutions alive for eight years](https://realalpha.app/s/profitability-kept-microsolutions-alive-for-eight-years/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 min
  > “For Microsolutions, our entire eight-year existence, we were profitable every single month.” — Mark Cuban · [10:05](https://realalpha.app/v/6VTSAs4Rsck/?t=605)
- [Learning software faster gave Cuban an edge](https://realalpha.app/s/learning-software-faster-gave-cuban-an-edge/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 min
  > “In my mind, when it came to software, there was only going to be one person who understood any given software better than me” — Mark Cuban · [23:59](https://realalpha.app/v/6VTSAs4Rsck/?t=1439)

## The episode

- [Mark Cuban: The Brutal Truth About The Next Market Crash!](https://realalpha.app/v/6VTSAs4Rsck/) · The Diary Of A CEO · Oct 26, 2026