Billionaire Mark Cuban Surprises With US Generics Venture

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

 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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