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“I actually felt bad for
Drew [Brees]. Honestly,
I think he was trying to
be positive.”BUSINESS REALITY Cuban (rear)
with fellow Sharks (from left to
right) Daymond John, Barbara
Corcoran, Lori Greiner, Kevin
O’Leary and Robert Herjavec.electric bill was last month. Probably
I don’t want to know with my kids. I
don’t stress about bills anymore and
that’s the biggest difference. Peo-
ple say, “Well, what’s the worst part
about being a billionaire?” Nothing.
Nothing, absolutely positively noth-
ing. I’ve been on both sides where I
had credit cards cut off—like I said,
I lived with six guys in a three-bed-
room apartment. I didn’t have any
money. My roommates and I would
go to the grocery store and be there
at midnight because that’s when they
pushed down the price of chicken,
and we’d get our chicken packs.... I
stress about my kids, like any parent
does. When my 16-year-old learned
how to drive and started driving, every
time that door on her car closed, I was
terrified and money can’t change that.Reasons to Be Cheerful
there’s no better time to start a
business than right now because
all businesses are effectively going
through a reset as we start to open
back up and figure out what’s going
on. Big businesses are protect-
ing their legacy businesses. Medi-
um-sized businesses are doing the
same thing. Small businesses are just
trying to adapt. If you’re starting
from scratch, you can build a restau-
rant that already deals with social
distancing and HVAC that consid-
ers the virus and all that. If you’re
starting a service company, you can
start off working from home and be
comfortable because people have
already gotten used to Zoom. You
don’t have to find that first office. So
there’s a lot of advantages. And with
the protests and the riots that give us
just one inkling of hope that maybe
we’ll make progress. That maybe this
time, we’ll listen and that’s why I’ve
tried to speak out. I’m trying to get
involved in the minority community,
going to events, go into black-owned
businesses, minority-owned busi-
nesses. I’m trying to help any busi-
ness that was looted and impacted.
But in particular, those people who
are at the greatest disadvantage
right now, I’ve been trying to con-
nect to and help.Ơ Newsweek contributor Jordan
Harbinger hosts the jordan harbin-
ger show, where he deconstructs the
playbooks of the world’s most success-
ful authors, entrepreneurs and artists.
Find his full interview with Mark
Cuban at http://www.jordanharbinger.com.