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Billionaire Mark Cuban Surprises With US Generics Venture

As ‘The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company’ Is Launched

 
• By Akriti Seth

 To increase transparency and affordability, American billionaire and businessman Mark Cuban has launched a US generics venture under the name ‘the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company.’ Cuban’s new company is hoping to introduce over 100 drugs by the end of 2021 and build a pharmaceutical factory of its own by 2022. 

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Mark Cuban has launched his generics manufacturing company • Source: Shutterstock

With the motto of producing ‘radically transparent, low cost versions of high cost generic drugs,’ American billionaire and businessman Mark Cuban has announced the launch of a generics venture named ‘The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company.’

The newly established company has already announced plans to build a pharmaceutical factory of its own in Dallas, Texas by...

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