Mark Cuban announces departure from Shark Tank after season 16

Billionaire and Shark Tank co-host Mark Cuban announced he will be leaving the television series after season 16.

Cuban, who also owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, made the announcement during a recent podcast appearance, stating that it is time to move on. He joined the show as a co-host in 2012, making the 16th season his 13th on the show.

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“This is our 15th year, and next year, our 16th year, is gonna be my last year,” Cuban said on the All the Smoke podcast. “So I got one more year to go.”

Cuban made his debut on the second season of Shark Tank, which has aired on ABC since 2009. He said he loves the reality show, which allows business people to present their product to the hosts for investment, because “it sends the message the American dream is alive and well.”

Cuban has made himself a politically outspoken person in the past, stating earlier this year that it is “good business” for businesses to play a role in the political sphere because consumers want to purchase goods from companies “that care about their customers.”

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“There is a reason almost all the top 10 market cap companies in the U.S. can be considered woke,” Cuban said to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Cuban said in 2022 that Republican lawmakers “don’t give a s***” about “woke capitalism,” and that these politicians only express concern over this issue because they “pander to the extreme.”