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Mark Cuban tells Steven Bartlett AI "is not smart," but the borrowing behind it worries him

The crash in the title gets a few pointed minutes. The rest of the 91-minute conversation runs from door-to-door garbage bags to a championship in Miami.

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Mark Cuban: The Brutal Truth About The Next Market Crash!

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4:47Cuban's first hustles: repackaged baseball cards as a boy, then garbage bags sold door to door.
6:43Sales is the foundation of every business, and handling rejection shapes an entrepreneur's mindset.
11:27His advice: master one specific skill instead of chasing many random business ideas.
14:07Buying the Mavericks out of passion, turning them around and winning the 2011 title.
30:52Markets act like a meme-driven bubble, with stocks traded "like baseball cards."
51:50The bigger risk he sees: a debt bubble from hyperscaler borrowing and costly data-center financing.

Where does Mark Cuban see the danger in today's markets? Partly in how people buy. About half an hour into "Mark Cuban: The Brutal Truth About The Next Market Crash!", he tells Steven Bartlett that speculative investors are treating stocks the way he once treated his childhood stock in trade: "We're trading them like baseball cards."

The second worry comes near the 52-minute mark. Cuban describes a possible debt bubble built on huge borrowing by the hyperscalers, the giant cloud companies, and the rising cost of financing data centers. Bartlett cuts briefly to an earlier clip of Ray Dalio from the show's archive. On-screen notes, which the show calls Community Notes, add context, including that some critics think the AI building boom is outpacing real demand.

That does not make Cuban a doomer, a word the episode's own chapter list uses. "AI is not smart," he says, calling it predictive rather than intelligent. He describes using AI agents at Cost Plus Drugs, his online pharmacy, and insists that judgment, problem-solving and selling remain human work.

So the crash of the title is one thread, not the whole cloth. Much of the episode is Cuban's own story: a blue-collar Pittsburgh childhood, repackaged baseball cards, then garbage bags sold door to door. Later come a Dallas apartment floor shared with five roommates, a firing from a software store and MicroSolutions, the company he built by out-reading everyone on the manuals. His central advice is plain: get really good at one thing, and learn to sell. "No business has ever succeeded without sales."

There is basketball too. Cuban recalls buying the Dallas Mavericks almost on impulse in 2000 and the joy of the 2011 title, clinched in Miami. Later chapters turn to his brothers and the price of fame. The channel's own short from the episode says Bartlett surprised him with a letter from his younger brother, Brian.

In the comments, one idea from the interview keeps coming back: that real wealth means control over your own time. The episode carries sponsored breaks. It follows Bartlett's conversation with President Zelenskyy, as we reported here, which has passed five million views.

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Having control over your time sounds like a better indicator of wealth than simply accumulating money
@ennemartaSee it on YouTube
One of the best podcasters. Asks pointed questions, shuts up & lets the guest speak and follows up with great questions. Does not constantly interrupt and never makes the podcast about himself.
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12:06 “Not everyone is built to be an entrepreneur.” His explanation about the work involved, and the drive needed, is gold. So true. 👍🙌💫✨
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Thank you for having Mark Cuban on. Very enjoyable.
@zairalavoneSee it on YouTube
“It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once.” - Mark Cuban
@thefoundersdailypodSee it on YouTube
The sentimental human element of your conversations - please never lose that whatever happens in the world ❤
@s035034See it on YouTube
Mark’s energy is infectious in very positive way. What an incredible leader.
@WdymAkiSee it on YouTube
It's rather neat seeing the human side of these high-profile figures. Especially when they show their raw emotions. Mad respect to them.
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We are rooting for you to change the US health care system, Mr Cuban!
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