Mark Cuban is bidding farewell to “Shark Tank” after 16 seasons … and he is already circling the waters for his very best successor.
The billionaire businessman tells TMZ that Emma Grede — the co-founder of the Kardashians’ style empires SKIMS and Good American – could be “insanely good” as a full-time Shark … having guest-starred on the present earlier than.
Mark heralds the 41-year-old as a superb entrepreneur … with a rare knack for serving to firms develop together with her expertise.
What’s extra … he is impressed together with her pure capability to attach with others … and says her tv charisma additionally makes waves — although, as of but, auditions to search out his substitute have not begun.
Mark additionally offers us a splash of context on departing ‘ST’ — which he first introduced on the Showtime podcast “All The Smoke” Monday … telling us his resolution is rooted in wanting to hang around along with his brood as he normally movies each summer season throughout household trip.
He says at 14, 17, and 20, it isn’t lengthy earlier than they depart the nest … so it is comprehensible he is chopping again.
As we beforehand reported … Mark’s additionally selling his majority stake within the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks after shopping for the group in 2000 and overseeing the franchise’s most profitable run and solely NBA title … so the ‘Tank’ is not the one factor Cuban’s abandoning.
Regardless of “Shark Tank” nibbling away at his private time, he is cherished each side of the present … from what it represents to the influence it is had on the subsequent technology of entrepreneurs.