Mark Cuban's Daily Routine
Cut the meetings and there's time to play every day. Mark Cuban works almost entirely by email and plays an hour of basketball each morning.
By Colin PaceUpdated
Overview
Mark Cuban sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in 1999, bought the Dallas Mavericks in 2000 and spent years as an investor on Shark Tank. His workday runs almost entirely on email: 8 to 10 hours of it, and no meetings unless he's closing a deal.
He wakes between 6:30 and 7:00 AM and spends the first hour answering email in bed. After breakfast he plays an hour of basketball, which is his cardio. He stops between 5:00 and 6:00 PM, watches TV and goes to bed around midnight, as CNBC reported in 2024.
It's for anyone whose calendar is so full of meetings there's no room left to move. Put the work in writing and you get the time back: exercise every morning, a clean stop before dinner and evenings with nothing to prepare for. The exact wake and stop times, the meals and the weekend are our estimates.
At a glance
- 6 hr 30 min sleep per night
- 59.5 hr work per week
- 3 meals per day
- 12 hr eating window
- 7 hr movement per week
- 38.5 hr play per week
Sleep
45.5 hours/week6 hr 30 min per night
- Every day12:00 AM → 6:30 AM· 6 hr 30 min
No naps.
Work
59.5 hours/week8 hr 30 min a day
- Email6:30 AM → 7:30 AM· 1 hr · Every day
- Email9:30 AM → 12:30 PM· 3 hr · Every day
- Email1:00 PM → 5:30 PM· 4 hr 30 min · Every day
Eat
14 hours/week3 meals12:12 eating window2 hr eating
- Breakfast7:30 AM → 8:00 AM· 30 min · Every day
- Lunch12:30 PM → 1:00 PM· 30 min · Every day
- Dinner6:30 PM → 7:30 PM· 1 hr · Every day
Off
Move
7 hours/weekSport 8:00 AM
- Sport8:00 AM → 9:00 AM· 1 hr · Every day
Play
38.5 hours/weekTV 5:30 PMTV 7:30 PM
- Every day5:30 PM → 6:30 PM· 1 hr
- Every day7:30 PM → 12:00 AM· 4 hr 30 min