Mark Cuban to peHUB: You're Wrong on This One
Earlier this week, I reached out to ask several high-profile CEOs the following questions: What about your personal lives is it fair to discuss in an interview, what isn’t, and why. I wanted to know because, as I reported yesterday, in a feature profile with the U.K.’s Sunday Telegraph, LinkedIn’s new CEO refused to answer a number of seemingly harmless personal questions, such as his favorite family vacation spots and his wife’s nationality. I believe that as the head of a popular social networking company that otherwise welcomes press attention, the CEO, Jeff Weiner, needs to do better next time around. Self-made billionaire and basketball impresario Mark Cuban let me know today that he disagrees. Though it’s hard to imagine Cuban himself being tightlipped, he said in an email that “the questions could create security issues depending on what else was discussed. Or may be of the notion that he will never discuss family. Ever.”
