I watch you last night and theres this amazing moment. Theres your team beating the knicks in the last second with a typical cubanesque movement. I thought, theres this guy who went you were 19, 20, you didnt have a dime to rub between you, right . There you are the billionaire owner of a Basketball Team beating the knicks in their own backyard. What did that moment feel like for you . Its amazing. Thats one of the beauties of owning a sports team. When you get to run out on the court when theres a buzzer beater, jumping up and down with everybody else and the cops arent chasing you. So its surreal. Its an amazing feeling. Your story is an extraordinary one. Because you go back, you were living in pittsburgh. Your first job was work at the mellon bank in pittsburgh yes. Very early on you realize the sort of bank structure, the hierarchy is limiting. Yes. Tell me how you dealt with that. I got a job working at mellon bank in pittsburgh. I would send notes to the ceo. Im a grunt, right . Working on these systems conversions converting from old traditional systems to digital systems. I would read articles thinking the bank would benefit from this. I sent notes to the ceo and hed respond to me. And until my boss pulled me into his office and started screaming at me. John whitman. Just yelling and yelling. Youre not allowed to do this, not allowed to do that. I realized i was never going to be a very good employee. You were basically not observing the bank structure. No. I wasnt going through my boss. I just went right to the ceo. It was like no big deal. The whole point when you go to work for somebody, i thought, was you do all you can to make the company more profitable. No limits. And i realized i wasnt going to be a very good employee then. Was that the moment you thought ive got to leave this place . That was one of many. They basically, after i started just doing pretty much what i wanted to do, they kind of shuttled me off and said okay spend some time here. And i just quit. Id only been there for nine months. And then i went back to indiana for a little bit, back to bloomington for a little bit of time, then went down to dallas. The rest is history. It is a remarkable history. You go to dallas, got no money still. You get together with five mates. Youre living in this small place, right . I had a car. A 1977 fiat x 19 with a hole in the floor board where i had to put oil in like every 60 miles. I had to be careful not to get dizzy and fall asleep. I could see the road go by in the hole in the floor board. I had a bunch of buddies living in dallas. I showed up and said im crashing with you. I had five other roommates. Slept on the floor. Didnt have my own room. Didnt have a closet. Didnt have any place to put my clothes except a pile. You had a rule when you went out with your gang. Nobody could spend more than 20. So youd all go buy horrible cheap 12 bottles of champagne. It was great. We walked around like we were moguls with this bottle of of champagne drinking out of the champagne. P. Diddy thought he was cool drinking champagne out of the bottle. We were way ahead of the curve. It was cheap and we thought we were cool. What did it do to you, make you want to be . It was no big deal. I mean, i had a blast when i was poor. But because i was always motivated. I was always competitive. So it wasnt like i said, well, im sleeping on the floor so thats my motivation. My motivation was always i want to be rich and retire. I want to have all my time. I realized back then that time was my most valuable asset. And i think my dad really drilled into me that you have to appreciate everything in life. So it wasnt about how much money i had, it was about how hard could i work and what could i accomplish. I think thats what motivated me to get out. Your dad was obviously a pivotal figure in your life. When he gave you advice, did he give you advice or was it more the way he conducted himself . A little bit of both. He never gave me business advice. My dad did upholstery on cars. Hed go to mcdonalds and sew up rips in the upholstery there. Lost an eye in an accident as he was putting staples into a car seat. He really never understood business. So it wasnt like i could ask him for business but he gave me great life advice. Today is the youngest youre ever going to be so you have to live like it. Id always complain im getting old and hed laugh at me. Just always told me that there were no limits. I could do anything i put my mind. To and he never tried to slow me down or stop me. Going back to dallas, there you are. Youre all leading this party life on meager resources. And you start to do a few things entrepreneurial. All your mates are doing crazy jobs, bartending or whatever. Right. Your first dabble into real business is what . Starting a business or working . You went to work. You got this huge deal. I love this story. Where you managed to do a deal. Im working for this software company. And one of my jobs was to come in and sweep the floor and open up the store. So id closed this deal for 15,000 with 10 commission. I was making 1500 bucks. That was huge. Huge for you. Life changing. Enormous, right . So i called my boss and i said, im not coming in. Ive got barbara all set to cover opening up the store and sweeping the floor and all that. And he said no, i need you to come in. I said, i got to close this deal. My customers expecting me. So i went and picked up the check thinking i hand this guy a 15,000 check hes going to love me for it. Fires me. Keep the check. Why would he fire you . I have no idea. Did he give any reason . I dont remember. I dont remember. He was a guy that was and i learned a lot from michael. I learned to do the opposite, right . Because he was really into pomp and circumstance. Im the president , youre not. This is how a president operates. This is what a president wears. He would tell me you should buy a suit here. This is where it looks good. Buy clothes there. This is where it looks good. He was never selling and this was a company that needed sales. So i never really got into it with him. I took the check back, went back and started a company microsolutions out of my six guys in a threebedroom apartment apartment and built that into an 80 million in sales. And then became the big deal, the massive one that made you a billionaire. In the buildup to that, tell me how you were feeling as a businessman. It started when we went public. And so we started basically the whole streaming industry. We didnt start the streaming software but we took it and turned night a business where we had a Million People a day coming in and listening to audio and watching video. We started doing the pop up videos and the lead videos, the intro ads before videos. Was there a kind of eureka moment for you personally where you thought okay this is how i can become a billionaire . Oh, yeah. Multiple. I can tell you a story. Our office was at 2929 elm street. And we had 15 employees at audionet. I remember sitting and talking. We would have people come in from around the world to audionet our site then saying this is changing my life. I feel like im back home. People who were in korea, thailand, the Aleutian Islands would email us or call us and say oh, my god this is amazing. I told everybody look if we do this right, this is going to be either worth billions or we screw it up. This is when we were just months old. So it was obvious that if we really pushed it, that streaming audio and video was going to be enormous. And we had a unique opportunity to take advantage. Were you technically yourself very very savvy . Or did you just have really smart guys around you . I remember sitting in the second bedroom of my house. I because an isdn line, a pack ard bell computer for 3,000, a router. And i taught myself all the html stuff i needed to do to put together the web site. Which wasnt hard to do. You taught yourself this . Yeah, but thats easy. Thats not a big accomplishment. You make it sound easy. I couldnt do that. Yeah, you could. That wasnt the hard part. The hard part was figure out how to get streaming to work with an ever growing number of users in an internet infrastructure that didnt support it. And so putting in the servers, connecting the servers, understanding the networking. Which is what my microsolutions company did. We were one of the first local area Networking Companies in the world. So putting all those features together and then knowing that we had to go out and sell it and let people know what it was and evangelize it. Pulling all those features together is what made it work. Next thing you know were getting 1 million daily users in a place where hardly anybody had broadband. It became obvious multimedia was the future of the internet, yahoo aol and others started paying attention to us. We went public in july of 1998. We had the largest oneday pop in the history of the stock market at the time. I remember sitting in the back of a car in new york talking to my partner saying we might get to have a b next to our name how craze yet stock market is and where were going with this business. He goes youre an idiot. That will never happen. I remember the second it happened. I was working at home in the morning and watching the stock because we were getting close. I was naked in front of my computer it crossed the line i was a billionaire. The moment you were naked in front of your computer and you become a billionaire. What do you do . I hope this is clean. This better be clean. Again, because at that point in time market was so crazy, i didnt know if it would last. If i said okay, mark cuban, i can let you relive the best sex youve ever had in your life or that moment when youre maked in front of your computer watching yourself become a billionaire which one do you take . Im taking the naked in front of the computer anytime. With that billion dollars i could buy all the great sex i could ever want at the time. Lets take a short break. Recover our composure, i think. And come back and talk more about this. I want to know what happened after you become a billionaire. Youre starting to lead i guess the dream of many billionaires. Honestly . I wanted a smartphone that shoots great video. So i got the new nokia lumia icon. Its got 1080p video, three times zoom, and a twentymegapixel sensor. Its got the brightest display, so i can see what im shooting even outdoors, and 4 mics that capture incredible sound. Plus, it has apps like vine and free cloud storage. 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D Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker . I look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. You have potential. You have. Oh boy. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. I had been a rich man and i had been a poor man. And i choose rich every [ mute ] time. When i have to face my problems i show up in the back of a limo wearing a 2,000 suit and a 40,000 gold [ mute ] watch. Leonardo dicaprio in wolf of wall street have you seen the movie . I loved it. Do you think its true to reality . I think there was some embellishment because ive talked to some of the characters involved. But i think at its heart it was very true. That once you get going, its addictive. Salespeople sell. And it wouldnt surprise me that 90 of it was how it went down. I interviewed Jordan Belfort recently. He said a very interesting thing about how his own morality became chipped away. I want to play you that. What seems amazing at first becomes commonplace after awhile. You dont lose your soul all at once. You lose it a little bit of time incrementally. When i lost my ethical way it did not start off its sort of like these tiny imperceptible steps over the line. Before you do it each time your line of morality moves a bit. Next thing you know youre doing things you thought youd never do and it seems perfectly okay. It strikes me every successful businessman in the world probably has moments when they can either cross a line, ethical moral line or they dont in Jordan Belforts case he kept crossing every bigger lines until eventually he realized he had lost his soul along the line even though he didnt want to. I said to him later, do you ever wish you hadnt gone the illegitimate way. You probably could have been a billionaire the straight way. I think he knows that. What do you think about that process . How do people like you avoid the pitfalls of a Jordan Belfort. Its easy, right . When youre a kid someone says hey you want to deal a little pot you can makes extra money you say yes or no. When you have no money people are pitching you stuff. Just say no. Either you have confidence in yourself, you know you can do it the right way or you cant. So its never been like a temptation for me. But i can see in sales we talk about incentives. And just managing people. And i always talk about if you give somebody a cadillac and say if you dont hit your goal you lose the cadillac its a whole lot different than saying if you hit your goals you get a cadillac. People dont ever want to lose what they have. Once they taste the good life theyll do almost anything i hadnt heard that before. Is that something youve done with your own staff . I want to give them the incentives up front. They dont want to lose it. Do you take away the cars . You have to. Otherwise you have no credibility. How do you feel when you do that . Its like you had your chance. What are we going to do to fix it. I dont want to leave them hanging. Its a better motivating factor to have them lose something theyre really enjoying than perhaps have an unattainable trophy . The process says one i have confidence in you you can reach these goals. Two im going to put you in a position to succeed. Three you agree that ive put you in a position to succeed so were agreeing this is the reward. If you dont reach your goals im taking away the reward do we all agree on this yes or no. If the answer is yes lets do it. So theres no hidden agenda. They know it up front. Jordan belfort at the end he sold me a pen, a scene from the movie with dicaprio. He sold me a pen. Fascinating he didnt try and oversell me a pen if i didnt really want one. He said he had to identify a need in me. In other words, have you thought recently the last few months about having a pen. If you get a yes then he goes into full sales mode. Is that a good sales tactic do you think . You always want to put yourself in the shoes of the person youre selling to. When i was selling computers, software, developing software, writing software myself, my skill set was i can walk into a shoe store and say i understand your business. Heres what i can do to improve it. Walk into a furniture store, doctors office, any business in this moment and say, i can help you use technology to your advantage. Because i understand your business. So yes, if you can put yourself in the shoes of the people youre selling to youre always going to know how to sell and be successful. Did you carry a wallet . Yes, i carry a wallet. I asked warren buffett. Do you have it on you . Yeah. What do you have in it . Thats a good question. Ive got some credit cards, a debit card, drivers license. Cards from some folks. Ive got my doctor, my iu alum card, insurance card. Cash . Ive got my gym card. Probably about 700 now because i was just in vegas. Not dissimilar to warren. All you billionaires in fact the wallet looked the same. Is there a billionaire wallet club . Actually there is. You get it after you learn the handshake [ laughter ] but you know what, im always upset because ive never been invited into the trilateral commission. I thought i made all this money. I qualify, right . When youre a billionaire, is there a little billionaire banter that goes on . It just depends if theyre friends or not. Ill tell you, ive got a buddy. I play basketball with. He just sold his company and he crossed the billionaire mark. We just sat down and had a big old smile. I saw him two weeks ago. Hes like, i think maybe i should buy a sports team. Im like, whatever, right . But its special, right . And i think anybody whos reached that little understands that luck plays a part of it. When people say that money, money wont make you happy. Its true. But isnt there an element to it that money alleviates a lot of lifes stresses . It relieves a lot of stress. Thats different than making you happy. You had no money. Better having it, right . Its always better having it. Its not equivalent for getting happiness . If your were miserable when you were poor youll be miserable when youre rich. Youre going to have the same issues and stresses. Ive come home with a date and the lights were turned off. Ive had to run from work to the Utility Company to pay my bill, realize i dont have cash, realize i dont have enough money in the bank with a check that the check will cover and have to go back and borrow cash. Ive been there. So money is a whole lot better than no money. But i was having a blast. I was more than willing. One of my goals was to retire by the time i was 35. I did it when i was 30. And lived like a stewed ept. I wasnt looking for oppulence. I was looking for freedom. I was looking for the value of time. What is the best thing about being a billionaire . More in control of your time. Nobody answerable or accountable to. I dont wear a watch. There has to be a damn good reason for me to wear a suit. This wasnt good enough . This wasnt good enough. Im in tennis shoes all the time. I have control of my life. And swag is being able to tell other people what they need to do and not having to worry about them telling you what to do. Lets take a break. One of the things you did as a billionaire you bought a Basketball Team. The Dallas Mavericks. Lets talk about sports when we get back. Sure. Sport business is winning the same in both . I suspect it probably is. [ sneezes, coughs ] ive got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. Its time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that wont relieve all your symptoms. New alka seltzer plusd relieves more symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. Oh what a relief it is. Crestor got more highrisk patients bad cholesterol to a goal of under 100. 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Lets talk sports. Why the Dallas Mavericks . Obviously youd gone to dallas as a 22yearold. You obviously loved the place, i guess. Right. Why basketball, why that team . Ive been a basketball junky as long as i can remember, 5 years old. The very first season tickets i ever owned for any team ever were the Dallas Mavericks. I was a season Ticket Holder before i bought the team and they were horrible. One day i was watching the game with my then girlfriend, now wife. Im like it was the opening day. Undefeated. Im really excited and the place isnt full. Theres no energy in the building. I thought i can do better than this. Then ding ding ding now i can put my money where my mouth is. Found the owner made him an offer he couldnt refuse. Within two months i owned the team. You sound like don corleone. How does mark cuban make him an offer he wouldnt refuse . I said would you sell the team he said yeah i said how much and i wrote him a check. Right away. Pretty much. You said here you are. I said lets do it. We had to do the paperwork. You said this is it . It was the highest price paid for a sports team. At that point in time the stock market was still crazy. This was january of 2000. So like the day before, my yahoo stock went up enough to pay for the whole team. So it was crazy. So it felt a little bit like funny money. It was like why not . Has it been everything you hoped it would be, owning the mavericks . Its a lot different than what i thought it would be. Because i dont really own the time. Financially i own the team but all of north texas owns the Dallas Mavericks. Being in business, you have a great quarter if youre big company no one throws a parade. You get an article in the wall street journal great job. When you win a championship the whole citys on fire. When youre losing everybody hates you. But in business ive never got an email from somebody saying my son has cancer or my daughters sick and she really looks up to the mavericks. Would you meet them, spend time with them. Even worse my son just died. You met him and took a picture with him. Were going to bury him in his dirk jersey. Would you send a note we can put in a coffin. So different than anything you find in traditional business. So you really have to learn very quickly youre a steward much more than a Business Owner like you are in traditional business. Lots of issues bubbling around big professional sport in america right now. Probably the leading one is this issue of gay players both in basketball, in football, and it will happen to every sport obviously. You know jason collins, on vicely obviously a big groundbreak moment there. Weve also got this Young College player whos come out before hes even made the draft pick yet. What is your view generally about this issue and sport in america, given that so many people in the sports themselves feel so uncomfortable about it . Its a nonevent now. It literally is a nonevent. Even since jason came out, how many states allow gay marriage. Its become so accepted that its a nonevent. I think just in the span of 6, 12 months its changed dramatically. Even in arizona this week weve seen efforts by lawmakers to kind of make it illegal again to just be gay. Say you have the right to refuse to serve people. Thats the craziness of politics. Thats not the real feeling of the population. I mean, you dont just just how we deal with people anymore has just changed. People dont unless youre running for offeice and really need a strong republican constituency vote foing for you real people arent that way. So i think weve come to the point where in the real world in real life we dont care. Thats a beautiful thing to say. You never run into people. Its not an issue. No one says to me no ones contacted me and say if you get a gay player is it generational . Absolutely. A sense anybody over 40 probably has a slight hangup historically about it . I think its older than that. 50. My generation. Youre probably right. 50, right . Anyone under 40 doesnt care. There used to be things where so when after september 11th, whenever a player of any sport said something that was politically related, i would get a flood of emails. Im never coming to an mavs game if you do a, b or c. Ive never got an email saying if you get a gay player. Jason collins played for 12 years. He was showering with everybody. Nobody died. No one got checked out in the shower and had problems. And so he actually was the perfect guy to change everything. What about guns in sports . The knicks guard Raymond Felton was arrested on gun charges. There have been a lot of these stories in the last couple of years. Obviously ive had a whole position about gun control. Probably because im not american and therefore dont quite see the culture in the same way. But what about that . What about the fact of sportsmen believing they need a gun . I think thats anecdotal. I think raymond, its unfortunate what happened. I dont really know the guy. But he was stupid, right . At the mavs we make a point to ask all of our guys do you own a gun . Is it registered . What states is it registered . Not allowed to travel with it no matter what. We prefer you dont carry it in your car no matter what. Youve implemented your own version of gun control . I dont want to make it seem like gun control. Gun safety . Gun awareness. Gun safety rules. We want to make sure whatever the rules are for the state were in were following the rules and youre notwhatsoever. Is it possible one of my guys might do something and im not aware . Sure. When youre dealing with 18 to 35yearolds it is what it is. But as far as im concerned, as long as its registered, playing by the rules, dont travel with it, okay. But taking it in your car and thinking youre at risk, if youre going someplace where you feel you need a gun dont go there. Thats what i tell my guys. If you took that attitude generally to america, if everyone had that view, be a much safer place. I think so. And yet these are quite sensible proposals. Is part of the problem calling it gun control . Do a lot of americans hate that word control . Yeah. Because i think a lot of americans feel threatened that their rights are being taken away. And gun control the Second Amendment has become something that we feel intrinsically you have to fight for. And i dont think guns are really the issue. I think its more an issue of where are we threatened by government and where do we feel at risk from government. And if youre going to fight back, what better amendment to rally behind than the Second Amendment. I dont even think its about guns. I think its more about staund standing up and saying youre going to have to pry it from my cold dead hands because im protecting the constitution. Do we need to do it to that extreme . I dont think so. But do i understand and respect it, yes. Lets take another break. Lets come back and talk about shark tank. Its a huge hit. Youre a huge hit on it. Youre terrifying in many ways on that show. No, not me. Not sure i want to be pitching to you. Well discuss it afterwards. Your eyes depend on a unique set of nutrients. [ male announcer ] thats why theres ocuvite. Ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. Ocuvite has a unique formula thats just not found in any leading multivitamin. Help protect your eye health with ocuvite. This is mike. His long race day starts with back pain. And a choice. Take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve. For all day relief. Start your engines you get 4 lines onw at ts network. Ilies including unlimited talk unlimited text. And 10 gigs of data to share. 10 gigs . 10 gigs. All for 160 dollars a month. You know, i think our family really needed this. Its really gonna bring us closer together. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. 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No, i was shocked. Mark burnett asked me to come on as a guest shark. I thought its a business show. How long do business shows last. It kept on getting bigger and bigger. I went from a guest shark to permanent shark. Now im in my third season i guess. Its amazed me how well its done. Now its become part of the zeitgeist of the country. Everywhere i go people dont want to talk basketball they want to talk shark tank. When i used to judge americas got talent i can remember having to sit through so much crap for want of a better phrase just waiting for the nuggets of amazing talent. You must have i guess the same experience where so much of the stuff youre being pitched is useless and the people pitching it are useless. No thats where i disagree. You cant ever think that the people are useless. The beauty of the show as a business person . Can they not be useless . No. Because when you put your life on the line, if you have the balls to say, you know what, im going to start this company. Every Single Person in this world has that one idea that they think is going to be brilliant, and then they get all excited and then do nothing. The fact that they were able to stand up and do something with the idea, so they get credit. So i dont really agree with you. Again doing americas got talent i can remember thinking i dont really admire you for standing there telling me aunty nelly said you could sing because you cant. My job is to stop this dream dead in its tracks. Im helping them by saying you cant sing. I dont disagree there. Thats just singing. You must have some people where you think, youre no good. Get out of business. Go be something else. My mind is completely different. Because its not just like hey im singing. Probably why youre a billionaire and im not. You have to do so much just to start that business. Youre not getting on the show unless its a real business. Unless at least it has a chance. Now will i crush people . Yes. But not people who are putting a good honest effort out there. If they b. S. Me, if theyre arrogant, if theyre into something that i think is abusive or taking advantage, then i will nail the hell out of them. I have no problem doing that. What is the kind of idea that you really love . Something thats differentiated, something unique, something that can grow i think into something thats big. Those are my favorites. What kind of thing over the years have you thought, yeah, thats what this show is about . Surf set fitness is a perfect example. This Company Comes in and one is a former hockey player, and the other his girlfriend. He wanted a way to work out and also learn how to surf out of New Hampshire. Where are you going to learn to surf in New Hampshire in the winter. He took a modified surfboard, put it on this instability devices and made this device that allowed you to learn how to surf indoors and started going around and teaching classes. And its just exploded since they were on the show. And so its something that can be anywhere. Kind of like zumba or whatever the fitness cycling is has exploded. These guys have the chance to explode. Theyre growing and growing. People open up salons for surf set fitness in it. Those are the types of ideas completely out of left field. They busted their ass and now theyre making something out of it. Talk out of left field, youre dancing. Thats far out of left field. Thats where they should have shut me down. You know why i liked watching you on that show . It made me feel better about my own dancing. Hey i just had my you werent bad. I had my hip replaced months before that. Jerry springer was worse than you. There are a lot worse than me. Right there doing the waltz whatever it was, i just had my hip replaced. Im like please stay in one piece. Then i do this jump at the end and i land it and i didnt fall apart and i was fired up. So it was a moral victory. Do you have even now, mark, do you get those moments when you wake up in the morning or late at night and an incredible idea comes to you . Yeah. I hate it now. I hate it. Because i have so much going on you dont have time to act on it. I dont have the piss and vinegar. It takes a special motivation to say i dont give a damn, im going for it. And you cant see barriers. People say youre such a risk taker. I never take risks. I do the preparation, the work. When youre prepared you can bust through any wall. I get the ideas and think i should go for this. Then i think, i got soccer in the morning. I got all this other stuff. And youre a father. Yeah. Lets take a break and talk about fatherhood. I wonder what kind of dad you are. I suspect youre a smiling assassin. 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Taking victoza with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. The most common side effects are nausea, diarrhea, and headache. Some side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. If your pill isnt giving you the control you need, ask your doctor about noninsulin victoza. Its covered by most health plans. Its a rite of passage in a cuban family. Taking jake to his very first baseball game. Right, jake . Thats good. Stick out your tongue. How old are you, jarks . Jakers . Four. When did you turn four . Yesterday. Dallas mavericks owner mark cuban is with me. You have young jake you just called the jakinator. No pressure, jake. I would imagine youre the kind of dad that wants to beat him at checkers, right . You dont let people win easily, even your kids. I do want to beat him. Uno ill kick his ass. Your dad like that with you . Not so much. My dad worked so much we really didnt get many of those opportunities. But yeah, with my kids when we compete on something, like i have my daughter playing basketball, i wont coach them, right . But ill definitely encourage them. Its fun. Its fun. I just try to have fun with them. Therell be a moment my three sons are older, 20, 16 and 13 the two older ones as long as as youve tried to beat them in everything from a very early age, when they finally beat you theyre going to rub it in. It means so much more. Table tennis, tennis, now they beat me at everything. But the moment they knew they could take down their father . Knowing i was trying my best . They love that. You get to understand the competitive nature of your kids, too. Which are more competitive, how far you can push them and not push them. I dont want to be the overbearing dad. I want to be supportive, want them to love what they do. I always tell them when you get really good at something you like it a whole lot more. But i dont want to be the overpushing do so much. I want them to pick what they like. If they want to compete ill compete. What do your parents make of your astonishing success . Given its completely selfmade . They cry. I just let them do whatever they want, go wherever they want. I think theyre still stunned. I remember when i was in high school, my mom worked for a real estate company. And she got bob freedman, the guy she worked for, to teach me a trade to protect me, right . So i literally had to go and install carpet at this one commercial setting. She wanted me to have a trade just in case something quite didnt go right with my career. I was the worlds worst carpet installer. But somebody thats tripping over carpet in this little apartment complex to this day. But yeah, theyre stunned. And just being able to spend money on them and give them all the stuff they could ever have dreamed of, is that one of the great pleasures of your life and your achievement . Absolutely. On one hand with my parents, its wonderful. And on the other hand its the scariest thing ever with my kids. Because i dont want them to feel entitled. I want them to have to earn things. Im not the dad that comes home with 30 presents to try to earn their love. I never buy them presents ever. When its time the holidays and birthdays i order some things last minute at amazon that comes already packaged and everything. Picked with love of course. But i dont want them to ever think that this is just theirs and an entitlement. My sons have to give me a Business Plan. Really . Yeah, if they want a jacket for a party or something they have to give me a Business Plan as to why i should agree to this. My daughter wants a dog. I gave her a list of things she had to accomplish. She got through it i was surprised. I said now i need a plan. She said i can deal with the responsibility. I said put together a powerpoint that shows that you can handle i think its good for them, too. Makes them think about money in a way that doesnt involve entitlement. My daughter came home not long ago and she said dad im mad. One of my friends came up with a business idea before i did. You got to help me come up with a business idea now. She was all excited like any 10yearold she was distracted. Gets back on it. But its always exciting to me when my kids just come up with new ideas. Like any parent, i just want them to find their own way. It struck me probably most people in washington when they heard whatsapp had been sold for 19 billion probably went what is that and s oh, yeah. Youre familiar with that medium. If youre going to keep up with whats happening in the world todd, in youre going to try to be a leader and try to have any impact on society, business, politics, whatever it may be, in youre not keeping up whats going on, youre lost. The world isnt going to be run by people who control metal anymore. Its not about bullets. Its about bytes. Its the people who understand bits and boths abytes and progr. Im not worried about the next pearl harbor, im worried about the cyber attacks, things you dont see coming until its too late. Thats changing dramatically. So if you dont know what an app is all my kids love this snap chat. Its becoming a social network. I had all my problems with the s. E. C. So im gearing people towards a zero foot print life. I had an app, thats how i communicate with brockers and bankers, i want it to disappear in 30 seconds. Thats why everybodys modes of communication is going to change. Lets talk gadgets and the future. What phones do you use . Ive got two of them. I have my samsung note 3. I type, i get a thousand emails a day, so it lets me respond. Then ive got my iphone, which i like because theres just certain apps only on here, like cyber dust. Youve got to keep up with everything. Are you a mac guy or a pc . All of the above. Ive got a mac, pc, theres always some 12yearold trying to kick my ass and ive got to stay ahead. I had a 15yearold kid on this show kicking my ass. He was a smart guy. I dont want to have a blank stare when they Start Talking about twitch. So you have to be prepared. What do you think the next big things are going to be . Sensors and personalized medicine. Right now we put everything into google and expect a response. Those days are disappearing. Ive got a company that counts people in real time, and will be able to give you information that you dont even know you need but will need rather you having to think what do i need and typing the it into google. Longterm its personalized med sin. Our bodies are just math equations. As processing gets faster and faster, we can decode our dna, decode down to rna protein levels. And the concept that my 4yearold when he has kids, his kid also go to the drugstore and take an allergy medication that has a warning that says you might be the one that dies from this will seem barbaric. They will go to the doctor, take a blood sample and say oh, we can tell that youre suffering from allergies. Out of the 3d printer comes this pill or whatever it is or a patch to put on you that takes care of your allergies. I wish i had your brain, mark cuban. Whatever. Its been great to talk to you. Your book and shark tank airs on abc on fridays. Mark cuban, remarkable man. Told ya you could do it. dad vo i want her to be safe. So, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. girl piece of cake. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Phone your account is already paid in full. Oh, well in that case, back to vacation mode. Boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants. Voiceenabled bill pay. Just a tap away on the geico app. Huh, 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Yup, Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know that some owls arent that wise. Dont forget about im having brunch with meagan tomorrow. Who . Seriously, you met her like three times. Who . Geico. What happen it is youve been homeless for five years and then you finally get a house but nothing in it to make it a home . If youre lucky enough to meet this weeks championship hero, your life could be transformed in a day. Im real emotional right now. Im excited. Im so glad things are starting to turn around. For like five years, me and my kids had nowhere to go. We had to go from place to place. We slept in abandoned cars. We moved in here with nothing. When i see my children on the floor, or on the bed, it hurts me. Hi. Theres no stability and theres no dignity when you have apartments that have nothing in them. So how this works, anything that you want here, you put your sticker on and thats what you guy also take home. Okay. Once we get the homes furnished, they have a chance to take a breath and start to create a different life. You pick up the furniture and other home goods from people that have more than they need and we distribute them free of charge to people who have nothing. We can finally sit down and just eat. Got something to sit on, something to lay on. Now were coming back on track. Now my kids can pursue their dreams. This is a good start. Yes, it is. I help people to find a hope that was missing from their lives. Love you. Good night. And the opportunity they did not know was before them. Every week well be honoring a new cnn hero, doing extraordinary things to help others. If you know someone like mark, go to cnnheroes. Com now and tell us all about them. Thats all from us tonight. Ill see you sunday live on hollywoods biggest night. Monday night ill be back here. Cnn spotlight Matthew Mcconaughey starts right now. The texassized talent with charm to burn. Loves life, loves women, good man, good family. Matthew mcconaughey. His journey from promising newcomer all right, all right, all right. Im young and im inexperienced. A career that veered off track. He took himself out of the game. I nee