This Friday’s (Might 16) episode of Shark Tank will mark the top of an period because the present says goodbye to Mark Cuban after greater than a decade of on-air dealmaking, and TV Insider has an unique sneak peek at how the present will bid farewell to the long-time shark.
Within the clip, among the most profitable entrepreneurs from Cuban’s previous on the present converse up about how a lot their offers with him nonetheless imply.
“Working with Mark is an organization’s dream state of affairs,” says R. Riveter cofounder Lisa Bradley, who made a cope with Cuban all the best way again on Season 7 and has celebrated a few years of success since then.
“Since we pitched, we’ve carried out over half a billion {dollars} in gross sales. We’re so grateful to Mark and Shark Tank for the place we’re at this time,” added Dude Wipes cofounder Ryan Meegan add.s
We then hear some memorable moments from the person himself, as he says, “I’m the luckiest man on this planet. You realize, I get up daily and check out to not take what’s occurred to me with no consideration. Once I die, I wish to come again as me.”
In one other flash to Cuban’s previous, we’re reminded of the powerful negotiation expertise he has employed through the years, together with telling a potential accomplice, “75% of a watermelon is an entire lot higher than 100% of a grape,” and advising one other, “You at all times should run what you are promoting like there’s another person on the market working 24 hours a day to kick your butt.”
Maybe probably the most emotionally resonant second comes when he speaks to encourage youngsters to realize within the enterprise world and says, “I need ya’ll to suppose, who’s subsequent? And what are you guys going to do to get there? Strive various things as a result of there’s completely nothing that may cease you guys.”
Mark Cuban has been part of Shark Tank since Season 2, when he debuted as a visitor shark, and he grew to become a full-time shark in Season 3 to exchange Kevin Harrington. He has since been a part of the present’s major solid — alongside Daymond John, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec, Kevin O’Leary, and Lori Greiner and introduced his intent to retire again in November 2023, and the Season 16 finale will mark his final stand on the present (which has been renewed for Season 17).
The logline for the finale tells us, “For the season 16 finale and Mark Cuban’s farewell episode, entrepreneurs pitch their one-of-a-kind merchandise to the Sharks, together with outsized luxurious candles, gourmand deviled eggs, a tick-removal mitten, and seamless, invisible undergarments.”
Shark Tank, Season 16 finale, Friday, Might 16, 8/7c, ABC