Mark Cuban

Just found the old list of patents out IP lawyers for Broadcast com were going to file but never got around to under Yahoo. Not saying they all would have been granted, but if you ever need prior art in this area, here you go lol. Potential broadcast.com Patent Applications January 4, 1999 1. Geographic IP Identification Technique for pin-pointing the geographic location of a static IP device by triangulating routes taken by IP packets and building a database of IP addresses and DNS names. 2. Hybrid Networks A commercial network of unicast and multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point. 3. Multi-Network Multicast A commercial network of multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point. 4. Reverse Auction Online auction mechanism in which a buyer who desires to purchase goods defines that desire, along with a maximum price that s/he will pay.  Potential sellers then respond by offering their goods at  a price below any previous bidders and at or below the designated maximum price.
 5. Audio Ad Delivery Software techniques for parsing files served by web server and acting upon text to perform functions such as audio ad rotation and synchronized audio ad/pop-up URL scripting. 6. Web Server Reporting System Software techniques for reporting on very large web server of files across multiple web servers in order to comply with industry-standard web server reporting practices. 7. Commerce Payment Gateway Integration Modular software routines for interfacing with a variety of payment getaway vendors (e.g. Mpact, Cybersource) for pay-per-view/listen and for traditional e-commerce. 8. Streaming Server Parsing And Reporting Software techniques for reporting on very large streaming server log files across hundreds of streaming servers. 9. Streaming Authentication System Custom database and related Software routines that extend RealAudio's 5.x implementation of user and player authentication. 10. Web Page Generation System Set of databases and scripts for automatically generating website sections such as CD Jukebox, Radio Stations, AudioBooks, etc. 11. Live Events Management System Custom data base and web-based system for managing daily events by collecting data on each event and "publishing" collected data to various groups as needed. 12. Automatic Content Promotion Set of scripts that run against live event databases and generate files for publishing to Yahoo!, Real Networks, and CMP. 13. Telephony-Based Content Publication System that allows people to call into a voice-mailbox and leave messages which are then automatically encoded into multimedia content and hosted on a website.

@levie They should put even more in elementary schools. Helping school systems and teachers adapt and integrate new approaches and build life time users Shown administrators how to use agents to improve what they do. Whoever does this gets a huge edge

Forward deployed engineers, or equivalent, are about to become one of the most in-demand jobs in tech. And one of the most important functions for AI rollouts. Deploying agents is far more technical of a task than most people realize, often far more involved than deploying software. Software generally works the same way every time, and generally for the past few decades has been updated versions of an existing technology or concept (which basically means easier for the enterprise to update their workflows on a newer system). With agents, you’re actually deploying the equivalent of work output within the enterprise. The customer is effectively using you as a professional services provider for a task, which they expect to get solved nearly end-to-end now. This means you need to actually deeply understand the business process as a vendor, and get the customer from the current to the end state seamlessly. Companies need help figuring out which models will work best for their workflows, they need extensive evals setup often, they need change management support for workflows, they need to get their data setup for the agents, and constant tuning of the agentic system for their process. Massive role in tech now. And another example of the kind of highly technical work that AI is creating.

@OfficialChipC @danbur1122 No such thing as “ much more of “. Either it is or isn’t :)

@mcuban @danbur1122 I already knew you were about to send this one to me, Mark. 😁 Definitely much more of a normal shooting motion on this one, compared to the one from Game 3, IMO.

This was a fantastic segment with Monty McCutchen. I hope NBA fans watch it with an open mind. Good stuff.

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@OfficialChipC @danbur1122 Watch the harden 3 at 940 to go in thr 4th. Exact same shot against Harris. Called a foul.

They would not have overturned. Just do a search for straightaway 3pt fouls. They always protect the shooter. They don’t use nuance. It has to be obvious. It’s like the rip throughs. Why is that a foul ? The defender has the right to have his arms in space. I bitched for years to get rid of it. Best they would do is make it a non shooting foul. It’s the same thing.

@JamesMi14828697 @OccupyDemocrats @Ringham7 Bartending is an important job I loved it Met so many people who are still friends

@OccupyDemocrats @Ringham7 @mcuban please chime in. You were a bartender and you ARE a self made billionaire

BREAKING: AOC absolutely DOG-WALKS Senator Ted Cruz after he insulted her working class past as a bartender in a sneering line of attack. She certainly sounds like a president to us... "Congresswoman, real quick, I'm sorry to ask you about this, but Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. Any response to this Junior Senator from Texas," a reporter asked Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "I mean, listen, it's not a secret the disdain that Ted Cruz has for people who work working class jobs," said AOC. "It's not a secret that, you know, what he thinks of the waitresses, the line cooks, he thinks that we're less than him." "He thinks that because he has a Harvard degree and never scrubbed a table, that that makes him better than someone who's actually had to work for a living," she continued. "And I think it's funny that he's been taking a government paycheck for twenty-three years, but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here." "And you know, if that's how he feels, that's how he feels. I don't take it personally. I'm okay with it," she added. In a recent podcast appearance, Cruz — who is best known these days for fleeing his constituents in Texas during a deadly winter storm to vacation in Cancun — attacked Ocasio-Cortez for daring to state the truth that billionaires "can't earn" that much wealth. He referenced her past employment as a bartender and said that it's "probably true" that people in that line of work can never earn a billion dollars. He added that she went from that job to "being a government employee and a parasite sucking on the taxpayer." The stunning irony here is, of course, that Cruz himself draws a taxpayer salary and has been doing so far longer than Ocasio-Cortez. The difference is that AOC actually works to improve the lives of her constituents while Cruz actively immiserates them on behalf of corporations and corrupt oligarchs. The congresswoman is also right about his underlying beliefs. Cruz, like so many Republican politicians, believes that the rich are inherently better than working class people. They view the vast swath of the American electorate as subhuman peons to be exploited and extracted from. Men like him should never be given power. Please ❤️ and share if you'd vote for AOC in a heartbeat!

@thoughtson_tech I agree CM is the equivalent of WAC in pharmacy it's used to prop up pricing to the people with the least ability to pay

@mcuban Those granular line items aren't random, they're the chargemaster doing exactly what it's designed to do (and what most price transparency coverage completely misses). The charges on a complex NICU stay are precisely the kind that hospitals target for strategic inflation because high-cost cases are where outlier payment thresholds get triggered. I wrote about this mechanism in detail at onhealthcare.tech/p/the-economic…, but the short version is that by 2024 only about 30 cents of every charged dollar reflects actual costs, so a $1.8M bill isn't a mistake. It's a financial instrument.

Mark Cuban (@mcuban): "The biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers, brand manufacturers in this country are more afraid of the the PBM/insurance companies than they are of president and it's not even close."

mark cuban is lowkey building a whole healthcare empire its wild how fast cost plus drugs went from some mail order generics to making their own injectables and now even modular pod factories theyre saving hospitals cash on shortages too the team cuban card hitting 17k pharmacies is huge for independents and those direct contracts with no middleman nonsense? this whole playbook is basically transparency over everything 😂 cant wait to see the pods actually deployed check it out here beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/mark-… #CostPlus #Healthcare

@DrJesseMorse @agingroy Brenzavvy is $50 per month at Cost Plus Drugs!!!

@GeneralMarket_x @mcuban Looked up my son’s Stelara for his Crohn’s on Cost Plus Drugs — we currently pay over $20,000 per shot at the pharmacy, but it’s only $360 on Cost Plus. That’s insane savings! Thank you for fighting the broken drug pricing system. 💊 #CostPlusDrugs

TY to Cost Plus Drugs & Mark Cuban. 👍 His wife’s terminal cancer drug was quoted at $13,000 monthly. He found it for $40 independent.co.uk/us/money/insur…

In April, the FDA approved the first generics for Farxiga. I checked Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company… and it’s listed for ~$8/month! This drug has historically cost $400–600/month without insurance. This is what real change in healthcare looks like.

Source for quote and more info: worksinprogress.co/issue/the-futu… And hats off to Mark! This will save thousands of lives and billions upon billions of dollars.

I don't think enough people realize what an achievement Mark Cuban just made here. He lowered the prices on a revolutionary drug class so much that now *millions* of patients will be able to get on them for cheap. This is like pricing GLP-1s at five bucks a month. Huge win!

#NephTwitter #Medtwitter Got my 90 day farxiga 10 mg filled- $15 with $5 shipping!! No insurance needed.

Farxiga is now $8/month on @costplusdrugs (or under $5 monthly if you get a 90 day supply) The same medication on GoodRx? More than 10-20x that. I'm a cardiologist. SGLT2 inhibitors keep my heart failure and kidney disease patients alive. Too many of them couldn't afford it before. Now they can. Thank you @mcuban ! This changes things in a big way for my patients gregorykatz.substack.com/p/is-cash-pay-…

@rodwlatstetter @ProudSocialist Costplusdrugs com

@ProudSocialist I TAKE FARXIGA AND "WITH" PART D MEDICARE MY COPAY WAS $463.00. SO AGAIN I WENT TO CANADA ONLINE AND GOT THE GENERIC WHICH WAS NOT BEING OFFERED HERE. I GOT 3 MO/ FOR $135! THIS COUNTRY SUCKS THE WORST!

Went to pick up my prescription and they said it would be $360. I said it was normally $5 so something is wrong. They said the generic medicine ran out so they had to use the brand-name, which my insurance stopped covering. I told them I can’t afford $360 & left without medicine. The U.S. healthcare system is a giant scam.

Spread the word about @costplusdrugs !

@Manavvv31 Ideology is not a strategy. It’s an excuse to not try to find the real solution

@Manavvv31 particularly when all the incentives are controlled by a handful of companies

Now explain Regulatory and Scale Capture in the healthcare market. Ideology is not a solution.

@pmarca, wanna bet that 95 percent or more of your portfolio uses the same companies that make price shopping impossible (despite what their PR says) ? Here is something fun for your portcos to do 1. Run their PBM and Insurance contracts through your fave LLMs and ask "Where are they screwing me over" 2. Create an agent that takes the terms of your contracts and uses them to review the invoices the company receives, probably weekly, and list the mispricing and mis charges 3. Have them ask for ALL of their claims, and have an agent analyze the claims for mispricing and non adherance to your contracts 4. Create an agent that makes an attemp to price all the medications that your members are prescribed and determine the net price. 5. Oh, and ask the LLMs to review your broker and our consultants contracts , and also their RFP.. Just ask it if they are doing the best job they can do for you Simple stuff.. Will save you tens of millions of dollars