Mark Cuban says he plans to leave ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ after season 16. One of the original Sharks, he announced on the ‘All the Smoke’ podcast that he plans on leaving after the present season 15.
“I got one more year to go,” the billionaire businessman and Dallas Mavericks owner said.
One of the original ‘sharks,’ he leaves Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O’Leary.
“We’ve trained multiple generations of entrepreneurs that if somebody can come from Iowa or Sacramento or wherever, and show up on the carpet of “Shark Tank” and show their business and get a deal, it’s going to inspire generations of kids,” Cuban said.
He often reads body language and looks for ideas that he wishes he thought of himself when deciding what to invest in, he added.
“When someone walks in ‘Shark Tank,’ you can tell if they are trying too hard,” Cuban said. “I have this rule: The longer the back story, the worse the deal.”