When Mark Cuban is feeling highly spiced, he’ll at all times can help you know. The billionaire businessman, basketball proprietor, and Shark Tank impresario lit up WIRED’s The Giant Interview tournament on Tuesday, losing scorching takes about Elon Musk, the pharmaceutical business, and why he thinks “sofa fucking” and Gary Gensler’s crypto coverage price Kamala Harris the election.
Speaking to WIRED senior author Lauren Goode, Cuban touted the trajectory of Price Plus Medication, the pharmaceutical corporate he cofounded in 2022. Via providing transparency on prices and pricing insurance policies, Cuban says his corporate has been in a position to disrupt the drug business, providing customers medication like Droxidopa for one thing like $20 monthly as opposed to the greater than $3,000 a month uninsured sufferers have been being quoted.
“We’ve reduced the cost of [one of our 2,500 medications] each and every unmarried weekday for 18 months,” Cuban boasted, pronouncing the corporate has additionally discovered nice luck in publishing its complete value checklist, one thing that’s at all times been extremely onerous to acquire from different drug suppliers for customers and researchers alike.
Now, Cuban says, research have pop out appearing that if Medicare purchased, as an example, 9 particular medication from Price Plus Medication as a substitute in their different resources, the federal government would save billions of bucks, one thing that now not best presentations the bloat of the well being care device but additionally the tangible impact that one well-funded corporate may have.
It’s now not that Cuban’s now not being profitable on Price Plus Medication, both, as a result of he’s. He might be making extra, he instructed Goode, however as he put it, “How a lot fucking cash do I would like? I’m now not looking to land on Mars.”
The crack, probably directed at Elon Musk, was once simply considered one of a number of remarks Cuban made in regards to the billionaire X proprietor. For one, he spoke about his personal transfer from X to Bluesky in contemporary months, pronouncing that he thinks it’s an total “existential second” for Musk’s platform.
On account of Bluesky’s troll-blocking features and what Cuban calls extra engagement-friendly insurance policies, he says he’s discovered it a lot more uncomplicated to interact there, whether or not it’s Kamala Harris, cryptocurrency, or the Dallas Mavericks basketball staff, wherein he owns a minority stake. “If you wish to know what Elon thinks, Twitter’s superb,” Cuban joked, however added that he thinks Bluesky is extra of a real “social community” when put next.
Mark Cuban and Lauren Goode at The Giant Interview{Photograph}: Tristan deBrauwere
