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Mark Cuban: belief

29 Mar 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

“A lot of it was mafia driven, but it was, people found that spark because I think that is natural.”

— Mark Cuban

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Mark Cuban
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belief
Recorded
29 Mar 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Good enough to remember that. Yeah, right? Yeah. But it was interesting to me, and I bring it up because they didn’t know what the word profit meant. But at the same time, I would go around and meet people, and it was as entrepreneurial right after the Soviet Union fell, entrepreneurship went through the roof. A lot of it was mafia driven, but it was, people found that spark because I think that is natural. And so you just never know when and how and when the circumstances will come together for you to be able to take advantage. That spark is really important to comment on is in Russia and Ukraine, I think the system kind of suppresses that spark somehow. As you said you saw the natural entrepreneurship, but there’s not the entrepreneurial spirit once you grow up in both of the nations I mentioned. There is [inaudible 02:10:08]-…

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