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Mark Cuban has been right every time the crowd said he was wrong. He is saying it again.<br>The billionaire who called streaming before anyone believed it is calling AI the same way. 3 years from now, 2 types of companies will exist. Cuban already knows which one yours is.

Ruben Dominguez<br>May 11, 2026

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Mark Cuban has watched this movie 3 times.<br>He sold PCs to people who said they did not need them

He built a network company when people still carried floppy disks across the room

He launched AudioNet, the first streaming company, and got called a moron for it

3 consecutive technology waves. Right every time.<br>Not because he predicted the technology. Because he recognized the human pattern around it.

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He just spent 53 minutes on the Big Technology Podcast with Alex Kantorowitz laying out what is coming next.<br>Here are the 10 things that matter 👇

📢 A quick word before we get into it.<br>Cuban’s whole thesis is that the people who iterate fastest win. Most reading this know that. Few actually carve out the weekend to do it.<br>The world’s first LIVE Claude-a-thon is happening this weekend. 2 days. 9 hours per day.

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1. Cuban has watched this movie 3 times. The ending is always the same.

“If you are not using one of the large language models, whether it is Claude, my favorite, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, from a business perspective, you are falling way behind.”

History does not repeat. The humans in it do.

PCs. Networking. The internet. Streaming.<br>Every wave had the same cast:<br>▫️ A small group that moved early<br>▫️ A large group that called it overhyped<br>▫️ A compounding gap nobody noticed until it was too late to close<br>The people who said they did not need a PC were not stupid. They were optimizing for the world they already understood.<br>That is the only mistake that has ever mattered in technology. It is happening again right now with the same confidence and the same outcome already written.<br>Stop asking whether AI is ready. It is. Start measuring how many weeks you have been in the second group.

For the broader thesis on where this wave goes next, see Anthropic just passed OpenAI in revenue, spending 4x less and Dario Amodei and the long game of safe AI.

2. The Cost Plus Drugs proof: agentic AI is a completely different category.

“For Cost Plus Drugs, I just went into Claude and said, go to these 3 sites, take the top 25 most expensive products we carry, and every week I want a report comparing prices. 12 minutes later, boom.”

The model did not answer a question.<br>It took actions. Browsed sites. Structured data. Formatted a recurring output on a schedule.<br>That task before agentic AI meant hiring someone, writing a spec, building a pipeline, or pulling it manually every week.<br>Cuban did it on his phone in a conversation.<br>The upgrade does not require a developer or a budget. It requires writing the spec in plain language before opening any tool.<br>Find one recurring task at the bottom of your Friday list. Write what the finished output looks like in 3 plain sentences. That spec is your first agent.

The gap between having it and not having it is the entire game.<br>For the practical setup that makes this work at scale:<br>▫️ The Claude Code system that replaces a 5-person team<br>▫️ Claude Cowork: the tool that triggered a $285 billion software selloff<br>▫️ The complete guide to AI coding in 2026

3. From zero to patent application in 12 minutes.

“I said, here is what I want to do. I want a business plan and a bill of materials and a patent application. 12 minutes.”

Cuban wanted to find the edges.

He invented a product on the spot. A button-sized wearable camera with 24-hour recording and auto-sync. Ran it all the way to a patent draft as a test.<br>The output was not perfect. He iterated. The vendors were approximate. None of that is the point.<br>The same exercise before agentic AI meant hours stitching together something a client would not laugh at. The first research pass now costs minutes.<br>The hiring decisions and budget allocations built around that pass have not moved yet.<br>Every organization is paying 2019 rates for information AI produces in minutes.<br>Run your next research brief through an LLM before assigning it to anyone. Compare the output to what you would have paid for. That delta is your restructuring baseline.

For the prompt library that maps onto this:<br>▫️ 25 Claude Skills that give your startup a...