He's been almost as publicly known for 20 years and certainly winning the title in 2011 gave him more prestige.
He'd make a decent candidate though. He's a Democrat (I guess he could run as a Republican, too) from the South with a bigger built-in fanbase than anyone else mentioned in this comment thread. He's run his organization for a long time with advanced stats, so he's no dinosaur. He's Jewish (if that matters, but it's nice having more diversity). Seemingly very healthy and relatively young, and no existing political career so he can cast himself as a ... maverick.
He's made a number of missteps, but he's also pretty good at turning those to his advantage. He's a minor god here in Dallas. If we're in an era where popularity/money is what wins elections, I feel like you could do much worse than him, and I'd trust him way way more than Trump and feel like he'd have the potential for lots more interesting change than Biden.
Howard Schultz and Mike Bloomberg fell for this trap too, and it didn't turn out well for them.
It must be difficult to get honest advice as a billionaire, because these guys seem to be quite uninformed about how unpopular they actually turn out to be in the political arena.
I'm certain it is hard to get that advice, because it's pretty hard to get out of your own way, success certainly ain't going to make it easier.
You're completely correct about both of those guys, but Bloomberg showed an incredibly lack of charisma in his run and Schultz is known, but I really think yall are underrating how popular Cuban is for common people.
The ESPN demographic is a lot bigger than the HN techie demographic.
He's wetting his feet, it seems, for some political aspirations.
I mean, hit TV show + billionaire + massive ego + mis-informed? opinion on everything ==> presidential material, right?
Kind of tired of seeing his face and hearing his voice, but somehow I suspect we'll see more and more of it.