Mark Cuban says goodbye
Mark Cuban is formally swimming out of the Shark Tank, and this time, it’s for good.
The billionaire entrepreneur—who first dipped his toes into the tank as a visitor panelist in 2011 earlier than locking in a full-time spot the next 12 months—has confirmed that the Season 16 finale, airing Could 16, will likely be his ultimate pitch session.
“Gonna miss it,” Cuban wrote in a submit on X (previously often known as Twitter) on Could 15. “But it was time to move on.”
And to be truthful, he’s had this plotted out like one in every of his funding offers.
Cuban first shared his plans to step away again in 2023, explaining that he felt his mission had been completed.
“I feel like in doing Shark Tank all these years,” he mentioned on the All The Smoke podcast, “we’ve trained multiple generations of entrepreneurs that, if somebody can come from Iowa or Sacramento or wherever, and show up on Shark Tank and show their business and get a deal, it’s going to inspire generations of kids.”
However when you assume that is only a enterprise choice, assume once more.
Cuban—dad to Alexis, 22, Alyssa, 19, and Jake, 15, with spouse Tiffany Stewart—made it clear that household was an enormous a part of his option to swim away from the set.
In an October interview with Folks, he shared, “My kids are teenagers and I want to spend more time with them.”
He went on to elucidate how the filming schedule made that powerful.
“We always shoot in June and September, and in June, right when they’re finishing school, I have to come here,” he mentioned.
“When they were young it was like, ‘OK, we’re going to wait for Dad.’ Now that they’re teenagers, they aren’t waiting for Dad at all, and in September they’ve just gotten back to school. I want to be there for that.”
Regardless that he’s making the exit with confidence, Cuban admitted forsaking the Shark Tank workforce gained’t be the simplest a part of the deal.
“Most of them have been here for 15 years and it’s family,” he mentioned. “We all look forward to getting together twice a year for a long time and seeing each other for 12 hours a day.”
So whereas he could also be out on TV offers, Cuban’s positively all in on household time. And truthfully, that may be probably the most strong funding of all of them.
