Mark Cuban Session

HDNet Chairman Mark Cuban: The Full D7 Session

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 30, 2009 at 1:30 am PT

What can one say about Mark Cuban that he can’t say himself? Not much, as you will see from this sassy onstage interview he did with Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, where he talked about everything from the idiots of the Internet to the subsidization of Web video by Google.

D7 Video: Mark Cuban

Beth Callaghan in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 6:07 pm PT

Mark Cuban, outspoken HDNet Chairman and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a few strong ideas about start-up culture, basketball and business models for making money from online content–and he’s been sharing them for a long time. Wonder if he still thinks “only a moron” would invest in YouTube.

D7 Interview: Mark Cuban

Peter Kafka in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 5:33 pm PT

Mark Cuban was lucky enough to make billions on Internet video during the Web 1.0 bubble, and smart enough to cash out before it burst. He’s spent a bunch of that money on high-profile purchases like a basketball team and a Gulfstream. But much of his investment and energy since then has been directed… away from Web video and toward conventional video, in the form of movies and television. Cuban’s portfolio companies make movies and television shows and distribute them to movie theaters and television sets. And he’s been loudly skeptical about the possibilities of Web video outlets like YouTube–around the time that Google plunked down $1.6 billion on the site, he declared that “only a moron” would want to invest in it. Time to see if still feels the same way.