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All roads may lead to Rome, but when it came to boosting productivity, Mark Cuban and Elon Musk found themselves heading down the same lane. On paper, they played for different teams — Cuban was the tech-savvy entrepreneur turnedShark Tankstar, while Musk aimed for the stars (literally) with SpaceX and Tesla.
Yet, their approach to squeezing maximum efficiency from their ventures was eerily aligned. Both ditched conventional rules, embraced bold risks, and streamlined decision-making like pros.
Mark Cuban and Elon Musk: Rivals who ditched meetings for emails and fast-track productivity
Mark CubanandElon Muskmight seem like they’re playing on rival teams, but when it came to productivity hacks, they were reading from the same playbook. Cuban, the billionaireShark Tankstar, made no secret of his disdain for one thing: meetings.
He preferred tackling 700 emails daily over sitting through what he called“long and tedious and boring”conference room marathons.
Cuban revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair,
Now, you may think that’s a lot, but I’d rather do 700, even 1,000 or more emails, than sit in long and tedious and boring meetings.
This wasn’t a new mantra for Cuban. Back in 2010, he labeled meetings a “waste of time” unless a deal was closing. His rule? No agenda, no outcome, no Cuban. Hetold Inc.:
Meetings are a waste of time unless you are closing a deal. There are so many ways to communicate in real time or asynchronously that any meeting you actually sit for should have a duration and set outcome before you agree to go.
By 2014, he’d gone a step further, dodging lunch invites unless they came with a check. He said (viaInc),
I’m not big on ‘Let’s go eat lunch’ meetings. The only way you’re going to get me for a meeting is if you’re writing me a check. Same with phone calls — they’re a waste of time.
Elon Musk, no stranger to cutting the fluff, followed a similar path. At Tesla, he encouraged employees to walk out of meetings the moment their input was no longer valuable. For Musk, wasting time was the real offense, not leaving early.
Even actor-turned-investor Jared Letojoined the no-meetingsbandwagon. His secret to getting things done?“Just f—ing working.”Dinners, lunches, and breakfasts are all hard pass.
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Not everyone agreed with this anti-meeting crusade. Experts argued emails weren’t always the answer, citing miscommunications. Cuban, however, stood by his inbox. For him, email was the ultimate productivity tool, shaving hours off his day.
Call them rivals, call them renegades – Cuban and Musk weren’t reinventing the wheel. They just ditched the unnecessary detours. Productivity, for them, was all about staying in the fast lane.
Mark Cuban calls out X, backs Bluesky, and shakes up healthcare and AI
Mark Cuban doesn’t sugarcoat. At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Dinner in Vegas, he straight-up called X (formerly Twitter) a “sh*thole” and crowned Bluesky his new hangout. He revealed,
It’s my favorite, follow me on Bluesky. I answer a lot more questions there than on Twitter. Twitter’s a sh*thole these days.
Cuban wasn’t just throwing shade at social media. He dove into healthcare, calling out its inefficiencies. That’s why he launched Cost Plus Drugs in 2022. His game plan is simple: Transparent pricing and low margins.
There’s nobody who looks at the healthcare system or the pharmaceutical industry and says, ‘Wow, that’s well-run. It’s just the way you want it. It’s great for us. We love participating in it…We thought that if we could create a company, limit our margins, publish all of our pricing and price list, then maybe we can have an impact.
Then came AI and the NBA. Cuban backed AI as the future everywhere. For the NBA, though, it’s all about digital views. Mark Cuban’s always ahead, always real, and always leaving a mark.
Heena Singh
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Heena Singh is a Editor at FandomWire, spent the last two years making waves in entertainment journalism. With a knack for digging up blockbuster celebrity scoops and an uncanny nose for the latest buzz, Heena’s articles bring a fresh and fun perspective to life. When she’s not conquering writing challenges, you’ll find her curled up in bed, peacefully sleeping.
