Former Shark Tank star Mark Cuban has finally found an assistant to help him maintain a clear inbox, and its name is Mac (Mini).
The billionaire entrepreneur has always preferred email to phone calls, partly because he likes to send more comprehensive responses via email and because it’s searchable even decades later. Plus, when it comes to phone calls, “I’m going to forget half the stuff that we talked about,” he previously has said.
Cuban is also notoriously tidy, aiming to keep his inbox to under 20 unread emails—or 10 on a good day—even if he has to read up to 1,000 emails per day on three phones.
For years, he’s handled this obsessive attentiveness to his communications on his own, saying an assistant would merely “slow things down.” Still, the increase in AI-generated cold emails and unwanted subscriptions have now obligated him to turn to AI for help, he said in an interview on the TBPN podcast published Thursday.
“I do what everybody else does. I bought a Mac Mini,” Cuban said on the podcast, referring to Apple’s compact desktop computer.
