Mark Cuban doesn’t believe in following your passions | Re:Thinking with Adam Grant

The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. Mark Cuban has gone from selling garbage bags door-to-door to selling internet companies for billions, acquiring an NBA team, and becoming a beloved “Shark” on Shark Tank. Mark reveals to Adam how he turns problems into opportunities in entrepreneurship, basketball, and investing. They discuss his latest venture–disrupting the healthcare industry with an online pharmacy and a price-slashing philosophy that makes hundreds of drugs affordable–and why following your passion is not the best way to maintain your motivation. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/RWAG1 The TED Audio Collective videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com.

Adam GranthostMark Cubanguest

Jan 12, 202344mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: January 12, 2023
Duration: 44m
Channel: Re:Thinking with Adam Grant
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. Mark Cuban has gone from selling garbage bags door-to-door to selling internet companies for billions, acquiring an NBA team, and becoming a beloved “Shark” on Shark Tank. Mark reveals to Adam how he turns problems into opportunities in entrepreneurship, basketball, and investing. They discuss his latest venture–disrupting the healthcare industry with an online pharmacy and a price-slashing philosophy that makes hundreds of drugs affordable–and why following your passion is not the best way to maintain your motivation. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/RWAG1 The TED Audio Collective videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com.

SPEAKERS

Adam Grant
host
Organizational psychologist and Wharton professor who hosts the podcast Re:Thinking.
Mark Cuban
guest
Entrepreneur and investor (Shark Tank), owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, featuring Adam Grant and Mark Cuban, Mark Cuban doesn’t believe in following your passions | Re:Thinking with Adam Grant explores mark Cuban on radical transparency, disruption, and why passion misleads Cost Plus Drugs began with a cold email and grew into a cost-plus-15% prescription model designed to expose opaque drug pricing and make medications dramatically cheaper.

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