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Mark Cuban said he will miss being on “Shark Tank” when his final episode on the series airs on Friday.
“My last @ABCSharkTank is this Friday. Gonna miss it. But it was time to move on. Make sure to watch!” Cuban wrote in a post on X on Thursday.
Cuban has been a fixture on ABC’s entrepreneurial reality show since he joined the series full time in 2012. Cuban is one of the show’s “sharks,” an angel investor who grills founders on their business ideas before deciding to invest on them.
In November 2023, Cuban announced his departure from “Shark Tank.” Cuban said the show’s sixteenth season, which started airing in October, will be his last.
Cuban told The Hollywood Reporter, in a story published in November 2023, that he was leaving the show to spend more time with his family.
“I just want to have a couple summers with my teens before they go off on their own,” Cuban wrote in an email to The Hollywood Reporter. “Nothing to do with the show. I love it. I love being on it.”
Cuban told People magazine in an interview last year that the shooting schedule for “Shark Tank” tended to clash with summer vacation.
“We always shoot in June and September, and in June, right when they’re finishing school, I have to come here,” Cuban said.
“When they were young it was like, ‘Okay, we’re going to wait for Dad.’ Now that they’re teenagers, they aren’t waiting for Dad at all, and in September they’ve just gotten back to school,” Cuban added. “I want to be there for that.”
To be sure, Cuban’s departure from “Shark Tank” doesn’t mean he’ll be out of the spotlight. The billionaire endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election, becoming one of her most vocal supporters. He’s also continued to post on his social media platforms, and has criticized President Donald Trump for his tariff policies.
Last month, Cuban expressed support for an executive order Trump signed to lower drug prices. Cuban has long been interested in healthcare policy and started his own low-cost online pharmacy, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Co. in 2022.
“Gotta be honest. The @realDonaldTrump EO on healthcare and in particular, drug pricing could save hundreds of billions,” Cuban wrote in a post on X, which included six ways he thought drug prices could be regulated.
“Put me in coach! I’m here to help,” Cuban added.
Cuban did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
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