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.

UnitedHealthcare now gets more than 77% of its revenues from government programs, even though it covers almost twice as many people in its commercial plans. healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/2025-big-ins…

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@FrankDPrestia @VaibhavSisinty Yup. People see patents as a moat. It's become a bridge for AI into your business.

Enforcing the right matters as much as protecting the knowledge, but it gets less attention. I’m an attorney. I invented the machinery my company sells, and I never filed on any of it. A patent publishes the blueprint, starts a clock on how long you’re protected, and leaves you a right worth only what you can afford to prove in court. With frontier labs it’s worse. You may never detect the violation at all, inside systems you can’t audit. A right you can’t enforce in court isn’t a moat.

Satya Nadella just warned every company using AI: you are paying twice. Once with money. Again with something far more valuable. He published an article introducing something called the Reverse Information Paradox. And it changes how you think about every AI tool your company uses. Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow described the original paradox: a seller risks giving away knowledge just to sell it. Nadella says AI flips this completely. In the AI age, the buyer gives away knowledge just to use what they bought. Every time your team uses Claude or GPT at work, every prompt reveals what you are building. Every correction teaches the model what good looks like inside your company. Every eval shows what you value. Every trace exposes your workflow. The model provider learns more about you with every interaction. You learn almost nothing about what they are learning in return. Your corrections are distilled institutional know-how. The kind a competitor could never buy. And it leaks trace by trace, correction by correction, without you noticing. His line: "You can offload a task. You can offload a job. But you can never offload your learning." If the model provider disappears tomorrow, do you still own the intelligence your team built on top of it? Your evals. Your memory. Your traces. Your workflows. Or did all of that compound inside someone else's infrastructure? In the cloud era, companies accumulated data. In the AI era, they accumulate learning. Right now, most of that learning is compounding inside the model provider. Not inside the company paying for it. The CEO pushing AI harder than anyone just told you to protect your knowledge from the very tools he is selling you. That should tell you everything.

Is Microsoft ditching patents ? Same issue. You may think your IP is protected. It's not. Every model is training on every patent app, and simultaneously being prompted to find workarounds or ways to compete with that patent I think the value of a patent has dropped and the value of a trade secret has increased

It's not. Why ? Because 25 pct or more of a doctor's time is spent dealing with conglomerates that do all they can to make the doctor's care more difficult, and expensive, for both the doctor and patient. For every future agent we give AI doctors to deal with this friction, and to improve the quality of care, the conglomerates will have multiple adversarial agents doing all they can to delay and deny, to minimize their cost and maximize their float We see this already as the conglomerates use AI to find every possible way to manipulate contracts, and find ways to mislead, while hospitals hire companies for Revenue Cycle Management, who charge as much as 10 pct of revenue to have their agents try to do the reverse. It's the agentic version of Mad magazine Spy vs Spy I'll give you a further example. There isn't a single company, including yours, that knows the actual cost of the care they purchase for your employees and families. Not one. Cost is an important component of health care decision making. @a16z includes costs in defining its benefits. But you are blind to all but the total bill you pay. Your carrier, your ASO, your PBM, any company that touches the economics of care for your company is going to do everything they can to prevent you from using AI doctors or agents successfully If you want to see that change, stop working with the healthcare conglomerates. Write agents that define , optimize and contract directly with providers, to eliminate the uncessary middlemen. Feel free to use costpluswellness.com to train them. Until the conglomerates are disintermediated , HC in this country will continue to be fucked

@mcuban two AI agents walk into a hospital. one denies the claim. one appeals it. both bill you.

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@mcuban Im on Ebglys for excema. Doctors note. Insurance. Specialty pharmacy (which has its own doctors) plus a savings plan company. 1 shot every 14 days, but insurance allows 2 shots per calendar month. Im always late to inject, which means it loses effectiveness.

So true. But don't forget your peer to peer is with someone who may or may not be a doctor, that works for a company, that was subcontracted by a company that was subcontracted by a company that was subcontracted by your insurance carrier for the sole purpose of denying care so the carrier can charge the employer for as many appeals as they can , hoping that everyone gives up so that they can tell the employer, whose CEO has no idea that the carrier they hired is doing this, that they saved them money @pmarca has anyone at @a16z ever gotten a report showing the impact of denials on the health of your employees ? I already know.

Any company can take on an effort to replace software. I am more inclined to be supportive if it's custom software. If so, one will need to rethink the workflow, train the model for user and enterprise context, agentify it. If done right it will have the property of increasing data integrity and also providing an ability to create enterprise context and intelligence over time which can significantly improve outcomes. The tools to do so are still nascent and evolving, mostly because models are expanding their capabilities and remit across memory, eval et al. Also, there is no backward compatibility on model embedding, a new model appears and the entire exercise on eval etc needs to be repeated. If enterprises are attempting to replace packaged software, I would caution against that, packaged software will get reimagined as an AI application by new startups as technology stabilizes. The challenge is as always the availability of competent resources who can architect an agile, AI first backend infrastructure. If you don't try though, you won't learn and be ready.

Patients perceived value at a doctors visit. Yesterday a patient came into my clinic, arguing for 20 mins over a $40 copay. 'This is ridiculous!' and ranted at the front desk before his visit. Then after his visit he happily signs up for $1,200 cash-pay services with zero complaints. The same person. Same day. This has really opened my eyes to cash pay services.

Starbucks spends $400 million a year on software. Yesterday they announced they're moving off IBM and Microsoft to build their own custom systems in-house. IBM dropped 3% and Salesforce dropped 4% on the news. And honestly this is, unequivocally, the biggest signal I've seen since OpenAI and Anthropic launched their consulting arms back in Q1. The largest companies in the world are done paying for software that half fits how they work. We saw this coming about a year ago. Moved everything we build off Airtable and low-code tools and went fully custom. Already paying off, and it's only going to compound from here. This is the opportunity right now. You get all of a company's data into one system. You build out a single operating system for the entire business. You cut out bad, redundant processes. Then you layer AI on top of it, under the correct processes. That's the core of AI consulting. Helping companies actually operate better. There are a lot of fly-by-night offerings circulating right now when it comes to Ai Services. For example, 'second brains'. Throwing scattered data into a second brain while the processes underneath stay broken does nothing. The companies who will absolutely destroy their competition over the next 5 years are rebuilding how they work from the ground up. Starbucks is showing you what other companies will be doing over the next several years. Your job is to position yourself to facilitate that process for as many companies as you can.

Can @AnthropicAI Fable, or any AI model, reverse engineer all of this and make it a non issue ? Curious if it can and if anyone has tried ?

"[Health care is] so vertically integrated. The biggest companies do hundreds of billions of dollars in sales, have thousands of subsidiaries, do $160 billion in inter-company transfers, which allows them to game the system." That's @mcuban breaking down vertical integration on @LynnThoman's podcast.

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Le passing de Vsevolod Ishchenko, me gusta. Un ailier de 6'8 porteur de balle qui fait cette passe à une main et avec la main gauche, comment ne pas adorer. La vitesse/précision de la passe alors qu'il n'est même pas en équilibre sur ses appuis mdr.

RealGM has summer league boxscores back to 2004, which is sick in a way 😂, but I appreciated it a lot tonight. Best as I can tell Jaden Hardy (28 pts) is the only Mavs player in his first ever summer league game to score more than the 27 by Morez Johnson Jr. in his debut tonight

@MontanaMJE @Radnorguy @RealKeithWeiner You hired the wrong person. Isn’t that on you ?

@mcuban @Radnorguy @RealKeithWeiner Have you never paid people at a loss while they learned? I recently had someone train for several months at a cost to me of about $20k who then decided to go back to their previous job at a different company. She was making $28/hr but contributed way less than $8/hr.

Methinks @mcuban mistakes "my business model employs people who add more than $20/hr" with "all businesses should be able to pay $20." No, it's not smart to set a minimum price by law. It can only unemploy everybody whose productivity is below Mark's magic number. "But Cuban is a billionaire, Musk is a trillionaire!" is not an argument to the contrary. finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy…

@jasmine_nisar @Radnorguy @RealKeithWeiner @markcuban It’s the role of government to protect its citizens from predatory employers , knowing that in doing so, it is saving taxpayers money

@mcuban @Radnorguy @RealKeithWeiner @markcuban fundamental question you are evading is that it is NOT the role of government force to interfere in voluntary markets by dictating any prices, including how much they pay employees. You are free to advocate any business strategies for employee retention you want to.

I guess it depends on whether you earn your money as the person doing the hiring and the training. Whether it’s an ice cream stand or truck, always the same math. Whether it’s a kid or an adult. The delta in wages obviously matters. But what matters more is the ability of the business to drive enough traffic /sales and the quality of employees to grab the margin available. You pay through lack of performance or higher wages. And If the business can’t generate the volume benefit from better employees , that’s on the owner, isn’t it ?

@mcuban @RealKeithWeiner High school kids working ice cream stand, dishwasher, laborers, people just getting into a trade. I owned a wood flooring company, I hire a new guy, they know 0 about what they are doing and may cost me money if they make a mistake. I train them and then they move up to ladder