Billionaire Mark Cuban Spends a Lot of Time on His Emails

[ad_1] Regardless of all of the developments in expertise, billionaire investor Mark Cuban, 66, spends most of his day studying and responding to emails.

In a Wednesday interview with Enterprise Insider, Cuban mentioned that he receives "700 to 1,000 emails" a day by his Gmail account, and he makes use of three telephones, two Android and one iPhone, "to handle all the pieces."

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"I spend most of my day attempting to get my unreads beneath 20," Cuban instructed BI.

He praised e-mail for being "asynchronous," that means that he can reply at any time from wherever he's on this planet, and ubiquitous as a result of "everybody" has an e-mail handle. Responding to a message can be "quick," particularly with Google's auto-reply ideas, Cuban mentioned.

Cuban says he retains his inbox organized with folders and has "by no means" thought-about hiring somebody to assist handle his emails. He's solely away from his inbox for a full day or longer for "extraordinary conditions, like a particular occasion for a member of the family," he instructed BI.

Cuban says he makes use of his unread emails as reminders of what he must get carried out that day. He solely makes use of AI to jot down the autoreply messages, preferring as a substitute to personalize longer emails and famous that he would reasonably course of emails than sit by "lengthy, boring conferences," or ship a Slack message or textual content as a result of he can rapidly search by emails years later.

"I've emails going again to the 90s," Cuban instructed BI.

Mark Cuban. Picture by Julia Beverly/WireImage

Nonetheless, utilizing Gmail may pose a cybersecurity threat. Cuban's Google account was hacked in June 2024 after he obtained a name from a faux Google worker. The dangerous actor mentioned that Cuban's Gmail had an intruder and faked Google's restoration strategies to obtain the credentials for the account. The hacker acquired entry to Cuban's e-mail and locked him out.

The hacking hasn't stopped Cuban's love of e-mail, nonetheless.

Cuban rose to fame as an investor on ABC's "Shark Tank" for the final 15 seasons, showing in his remaining episode in Might. He instructed CNBC that very same month that he invested about $33 million in companies throughout his time on the present and obtained $35 million in money returns. He holds fairness in these companies that are actually price at the least $250 million, he disclosed.

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Cuban's first entrepreneurial enterprise was MicroSolutions, a software program reseller that bought PCs, software program, and coaching to companies. He grew the corporate to almost $36 million in annual gross sales and 80 workers earlier than promoting it to CompuServe, a subsidiary of H&R Block, for $6 million in 1990.

Cuban then based AudioNet, the primary video streaming firm on this planet. The startup, which grew to become Broadcast.com, was bought to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999, making Cuban a billionaire.

In 2022, Cuban co-founded Value Plus Drug Firm, a web-based low cost pharmacy that delivers greater than 2,300 prescription medicines.

Cuban is now price $8.6 billion, in line with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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