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Turns out, after investing nearly $28 million in 85 start-ups on the popular television show, Cuban has made nothing.

That's right, nada.

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"I've gotten beat," is how Cuban straight up described it on the Full Send podcast.

With an estimated net worth of $6.8 billion, Cuban can absorb his fair share of misses, and so the owner of NBA franchise the Dallas Mavericks was in good humour when discussing the ups and downs of his Shark Tank adventures.

Cuban revealed his biggest loss was a $US 1 million investment on a fledgling start-up called Breathometer.

Pitched by founder Charles Michael Yim, Breathometer was touted as the world's first smartphone breathalyser.

By blowing into a plastic device clipped into a smartphone, Yim claimed, the device would generate an accurate blood alcohol reading which could then prompt an over-the-limit driver to call a taxi.

"It was a great idea, and actually a decent product," Cuban recalled.

Cuban detailed how Yim seemed to take his eyes off the prize, instead of pouring all his effort into making the start-up a success.

"I'd look at his Instagram and he'd be in Bora Bora," Cuban said.

"Two weeks later and he'd be in Vegas partying.

"Then he'd be on Necker Island with Richard Branson."

Cuban said he'd text Yim, saying: "What the f— are you doing? You're supposed to be working."

Yim, Cuban said, would reply and say he was busy "networking".

"Next thing you know, all the money is gone," Cuban said.

"That was my biggest beating."

Cuban said "there is no point" trying to heap pressure on founders who don't want to dig in for themselves.

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After the podcast aired, Cuban contacted CNBC to clarify his zero profit comments did not take into account the promising Shark Tank investments he had yet to exit from.

"I haven't gotten out more than I have put in," he wrote in an email.

"But that doesn't account for all the ongoing, operating businesses and their valuations."

Yim, too, had some clarifications of his own, saying Cuban had portrayed him unfairly.

The trip to visit Branson on Necker had been a pitch, Yim told CNBC, not just pleasure.

"You can't look at someone's social media and take it for face value," Yim said.

"That's not how social media works."

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A truck driver who killed four police officers in a crash on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway has launched an appeal to reduce the length of his 22-year prison sentence.

Mohinder Singh, 49, was short on sleep and high on drugs when he veered into a service lane and crashed a 19-tonne semi-trailer into the Victoria Police officers, who had pulled over Porsche driver Richard Pusey for speeding.

Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King, and constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney were killed in the April 2020 crash.

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Singh was last year jailed for 22 years after pleading guilty to culpable driving causing death.

He must serve 18-and-a-half years before he is eligible for parole.

He appeared in Victoria's Court of Appeal on Monday by videolink from prison, with his barrister Peter Morrissey arguing the sentence was "manifestly excessive".

Morrissey said the sentence did not give enough weight to Singh's early plea of guilty, his remorse and his psychological disorders.

He said Supreme Court Justice Paul Coghlan's sentence on each of the four culpable driving offences was "extremely stern".

"The original sentence is too big… It needed to be much lighter than it was," he told the court.

Morrissey also argued Singh's non-parole period was too long and that his client had some prospects for rehabilitation.

Prosecutors rejected the appeal's grounds, arguing the sentence and non-parole period were within the range open to Justice Coghlan for such serious offending.

Families of the four police officers attended the appeal hearing, which continues before President Karin Emerton and Justices Emilios Kyrou and Terry Forrest.