6/29/2010 8:29:34 AM By
Paul Kedrosky
In this epsisode, Paul talks with Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, entrepreneur and investor. They discussed Cuban's experiences as a serial company founder and his perception that the stock market has turned investors from company shareholders into hackers looking to make money by exploiting the system.
A born entrepreneur, Cuban's earliest big success was as co-founder of MicroSolutions, a systems integration company he sold to CompuServe. The sale of his next startup, multimedia and streaming provider Broadcast.com, turned him into a highly visible billionaire. Since then, he has invested in or founded a number of companies, primarily in the technology and entertainment industries. Cuban launched the high-definition television network "HDNet" in September of 2001 with Philip Garvin. With Todd Wagner, he established media company "2929" with holdings including film production companies HDNet Films and 2929 Productions, movie distributor Magnolia Pictures, home video distributor Magnolia Home Entertainment, the Landmark Theatres chain, and a stake in Lions Gate Entertainment. After purchasing a majority stake of the Dallas Mavericks in 2000, he turned the struggling team into a consistent playoff contender.
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6/15/2010 11:10:15 AM By
Paul Kedrosky
In this episode, Paul talks with Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. They discussed what the world might have looked like without the venture capital industry, then talked about current issues and potential changes in the industry.
In his position with HBS, Learner holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Areas. He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major that combined physics with the history of technology, before working for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department.
Much of his research focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organizations. This research is collected in three books, The Venture Capital Cycle, The Money of Invention, and the recent Boulevard of Broken Dreams (which was published by Princeton University Press as part of the Kauffman Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship).
In the 1993-94 academic year, he introduced an elective course for second-year MBAs on private equity finance. In recent years, “Venture Capital and Private Equity” has consistently been one of the largest elective courses at Harvard Business School.
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