then, tech mogul mark cuban surprises me with some news about his future on shark tank. and his ongoing feud with one guest shark. have you been in the same room with him? no, i have not. i haven t talked to him since. not a word. and later, the so-called man with a golden ear, clyde davis, reveals the biggest recording artist he never signed and the one he ll always be remembered for. is whitney the artist of your career? i worked a lot on this question. deny it? don t deny it. are you always like this? are you saying parents are wrong? will you come back? of course i will. dr. rochelle walensky leads the centers for disease control and prevention. for more than 18 months, she s been the face of the biden administration s fight against the covid pandemic. in our conversation, she talks about how she deals with the criticism she faces and her future at the agency. but we start with those new covid vaccines. how does the rate at which people are getting thi
intense. clive, are you ever wrong? it s a story i really don t know if i ve told before. i don t know, whatever it is, i m going to tell the story. good! we like news stories. the biggest artist that i ever passed on was john mellencamp. really? and when i auditioned john mellencamp, he was very close to an artist that i did sign at the start. and that was bruce springsteen. and so i passed on him. let s go back to 1967. you have come to columbia records as a lawyer. right, but by now, you re the head of the company, even though you don t know that much about music. you go to the monterey pop festival and there you see a group called big brother and the holding company with the lead singer named janis joplin and here she is in a performance, a
little-known internet pioneer to famous tech mogul in the blink of an eye. we continue our conversation with his first big purchase after striking it rich. one of the things that a new billionaire can do is they can buy a sports team. yep. and within months, you kbd and buy the dallas mavericks, nba, professional basketball team for $275 million. yep. and the last i saw, it is valued at $2.7 billion. not bad, is it? so that s like ten times. yeah, that s the way the math works. that s only if you want to sell it, though, and i don t. i m really hoping it becomes a legacy company for my kids. running a sports team in this day and age is not easy with social media. there s as much hate as there is love, if not more. but at the same time, basketball is a sport i m passionate about. i love owning the mavs. i love being part of the team and trying to win and the competitive side of it. so hopefully that carries on to
that s funny. you re just into your 13th season, over the years, you say you have invested over $29 million in some 85 companies. what s your best investment? what s your worst investment? i think my best investment is a company called cyclorama. they got sold to carvana and we killed it. it was really, really good. you say you killed it. what did you invest? i think i invested $250,000 and ended up with $22 million. you? ended up why didn t you call me? what s the worst investment? there s a long list of really bad ones. sometimes you invest in the entrepreneur as opposed to the business. and i ve had entrepreneurs take the money and not even show up from there. so i ve had a few stinkers along the way. so, speaking of stinkers, you have had some uncomfortable moments. those were the comfortable moments. you ve had some uncomfortable moments on shark tank. let s look at one of them.