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Mark Cuban appeared at Business Insider's <a id="cec12cb4-8074-3ab5-a7d6-34b205a01002" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/ignition-2018?_ga=2.75521749.1371597286.1543733559-197504620.1526497918"> IGNITION </a> conference Monday to discuss his latest backing, Paladin, a company designed to pair lawyers with people who can't afford legal aid. (You can <a id="93c7ebf7-4503-3db6-a831-013d2f019d4e" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/mark-cuban-backed-paladin-helps-lawyers-find-pro-bono-work-2018-12?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> read more on Paladin here </a> .)

While he didn't come to talk about his role on the ABC show, he subtly reminded everyone he's a shark.

As Cuban sat on stage, I spied the Mavericks' owner wearing quite the conversation starter.Cuban's socks fittingly had tiny sharks on them.

Take a closer look:

Even if you were at the conference, you probably would have missed them if you weren't seated in one of the first rows.

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'Shark Tank's' Mark Cuban has shark socks and here's the photo to prove it

Before Donald Trump was president, Barbara Corcoran knew Trump very well. The two started <a id="664dfd71-b9e7-36df-ab5b-952cf144b0cf" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/shark-tank-barbara-corcoran-donald-trump-2016-9?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> their real estate careers in the 1970s </a> .

"I've done a lot of work with Donald and I can tell you he is the best salesman I've ever met in my life," the "Shark Tank" star said Tuesday morning at Business Insider's <a id="e8815b53-e758-39e3-a6eb-416016a66b76" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/category/ignition-2018?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> IGNITION Conference in New York City </a> .

Corcoran recounted a story of how she watched Trump successfully pitch and sell not only the Plaza Hotel in New York City, but a giant plot of land as well that wasn't originally part of the deal.

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"Donald was near bankruptcy and really needed the money to bail out," Corcoran told the crowd. "I thought he was so off. He wasn't. They bought the land and built all those towers on the west river as we know it today and all those Trump towers along the river."

In 1995, the New York Times reported Trump sold the Plaza Hotel to a <a id="20c81301-3ac4-359f-a0ec-9d08937e043f" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/12/business/trump-is-selling-plaza-hotel-to-saudi-and-asian-investors.html"> Saudi Arabian Prince and one of Singapore's leading entrepreneurs for $325 million </a> . Corcoran said shebelieves it was that same tenacity and awareness as a salesman, which resulted in him being able to win over American people and ultimately win the 2016 presidential election.

"I'll tell you what his masterful mind does. He is a genius at picking out the vulnerability of someone's personality," said Corcoran of witnessing Trump in action over the years. "He can smell it, sense it, and trust it. So, for example, if you were to walk into a business meeting with Donald and you were saying whatever you're saying, I've seen it time and time again, he could see what your weakness is and, not physically reach out and put his finger on it, but he just could see what your weakness is and play into it."

"Not the nicest thing in the world, but it's a certain gift I've never seen in anyone else," added Corcoran. "That's exactly what he did in the election — he put his finger on what the weakness was, the vulnerability of people and he knows how to touch it just so. And people go along for the ride. He is a phenomenal salesman, I have to say. He can sell anything, and he did."

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Barbara Corcoran says Donald Trump is 'a phenomenal salesman' and he used that to his advantage in the 2016 election

We still don't have a trailer or even a title for the next "Avengers" movie, but co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo think we could see some of Fox's Marvel characters possibly appear in a future Marvel movie.

“I’m sure of it," said Joe Russo at Business Insider's IGNITION Conference when asked if characters like X-Men and Deadpool could appear in Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe. "I’m certain, with [president of Marvel Studios] Kevin Feige, who also has been on an historic run in the business, that he is going to incorporate those characters under the large Marvel umbrella.”

"We haven’t spoken to him [Feige] specifically about when he’s going to do it, but I’m certain that that acquisition created great value in dimensionalizing Marvel and the stories that they can tell going forward," added Russo.

Disney CEO Bob Iger recently <a id="343aacb8-d497-3a68-a7be-450674230483" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-iger-disneys-streaming-service-james-gunn-star-wars-slowdown-1145493"> confirmed in an interview to The Hollywood Reporter </a> that Fox's Marvel properties will be overseen by Feige once the companies come together next year.

"It only makes sense. I want to be careful here because of what's been communicated to the Fox folks, but I think they know," said Iger in September. "It only makes sense for Marvel to be supervised by one entity. There shouldn't be two Marvels."

Read more: <a id="a4cf427d-1c24-35fa-a565-404b6c180acf" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/major-film-franchises-that-disney-will-own-after-fox-deal-2018-7"> 14 major movie franchises that Disney will own after buying Fox, from 'Alien' to 'X-Men' </a>

"Bob Iger, by the way, is an historic film executive," said Joe Russo of the Disney/Fox acquisition on Tuesday afternoon. "What he has done for Disney over the last 15 years, I don’t know that anyone’s ever done anything at the scale that he’s done it and with the batting percentage that he’s done it with. So I think the acquisition of Fox is showing us where the future of the business is going to go. Everything’s conglomerating.”

When asked whether or not the "Avengers 4" directors would like to reveal the much-anticipated title of the next movie, the brothers declined.

"We'd like to, but we won't," said Anthony Russo.

INSIDER is expecting a trailer for the yet untitled film to drop this week. "Avengers 4" will be in theaters May 3, 2019. Fox, meanwhile, has another X-Men movie, " <a id="2d9358ec-2f32-3c26-a1d0-011c65420d0c" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/category/dark-phoenix?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> Dark Phoenix </a> ," due out next summer.

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'Avengers: Infinity War' directors say X-Men and Deadpool are likely to appear in future Marvel movies

Reddit cofounder <a id="101df8bc-66b3-3757-ae87-fec80fe801ac" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/category/alexis-ohanian?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> Alexis Ohanian's </a> daughter with tennis pro Serena Williams may only be a little over a year old, but Ohanian already has big plans for his little girl.

"She already has three laptops, like play laptops," said Ohanian Monday at <a id="5ee39f27-e28d-38ea-a9fb-0de1a6880dcf" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ignition?_ga=2.175807970.1371597286.1543733559-197504620.1526497918"> Business Insider's </a> <a id="a6d61254-afcc-3812-af36-c57255e8e961" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ignition?_ga=2.175807970.1371597286.1543733559-197504620.1526497918"> IGNITION Conference </a> in New York.

"I'm not pushing anything in particular, but obviously I want her to learn how to code," he added in response to what he hopes daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., will study when she's older. "Daddy's going to help her. I've already gotten, there are all these kids toys that get you started earlier and earlier. I'd love for her to learn the fundamentals of programming."

Williams gave birth to Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr. on September 1, 2017. The power couple welcomed her to the world with a <a id="48829a7a-f48a-3451-a0f0-c4ef7f88f996" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/serena-williams-baby-video-photo-alexis-olympia-ohanian-2017-9?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> sweet video chronicling Williams' pregnancy </a> .

While Olympia may learn how to code, she could always become a tennis star like her mom or aunt, Venus Williams.

Ohanian said at the end of the day, he just wants his daughter to do what she's passionate about.

"Like a lot of parents, I just want her to find something that she genuinely loves and then help her commit herself wholly to it so that she can be the greatest of all time," he added.

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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says he wants to teach his and Serena Williams' daughter to code: 'She already has 3 laptops'

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Entrepreneur and GoDaddy spokeswoman Danica Patrick recently released a book in 2017 called " <a id="f091acf9-c802-3ed5-a8b7-c3abc0ebe9d8" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XZSHWJ2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1"> Pretty Intense, </a> " about a 90-day plan promising to change your life.

So what does it take to be physically fit?

"It's about intensity. It's about pushing yourself. It's about pushing your boundaries," Patrick said Monday afternoon at Business Insider's <a id="248e69b8-3726-3455-ac46-0ba56be2ca45" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ignition?_ga=2.28114622.369825725.1543890516-942793283.1464180789"> IGNITION Conference </a> in New York City during a conversation with BI's chief tech correspondentJulie Bort.

"It's really that simple," Patrick continued. "It will be amazing, the effects, when you push yourself physically, that it has on your life otherwise. Whether it's your confidence, your job, you name it."

The former race car driver shared she put 100% of herself into the book, writing the recipes, designing the cover, taking the food photos, and more. Patrick listed off several workouts that are part of a fit test in her book, including 100 sit-ups and 100 knee push-ups back-to-back.

"You say to yourself, 'I can't do that.' And then you do it and you start saying 'I can' so much more often. You build that confidence and that positivity," said Patrick. "It's about pushing yourself. For me, it didn't happen until I started doing crossfit about five or so years ago, and I was like, 'Oh, that's working out!'"

Patrick then asked the audience a question that caught them off guard a bit.

"Has anyone worked out so hard that you feel like you taste blood?" Patrick said to laughter from the crowd. "There's apparently fluid in your lungs. I'm just going to tell you that you can make that happen in about two minutes or less. Anyway, it taught me about intensity."

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Bort asked whether or not that was how Patrick got in the shape that she is on the cover of her 2017 book, she said it was that and dieting.

"Abs are made in the kitchen and there's no way around that. I'm sorry, but that's true," she said. "I had finally done a workout program, which was intensity and integral training along with a different diet. I had the best results, which is why I ended up writing the book and wanted to help people to share what I had experienced for myself so this book was my baby."

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The one thing Danica Patrick says you need to do to be physically fit: 'Push yourself'

If you've ever rolled out of bed and everything from the moment you woke up has gone wrong, <a id="c6a96068-0634-3a0a-a9db-dd816b49943c" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/category/danica-patrick?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> Danica Patrick </a> has some advice.

Instead of telling yourself it's going to be a bad day, try doing the opposite.

"If you can just fake it, that you're happy, then you really end up there," said Patrick on Monday afternoon at Business Insider's IGNITION Conference in New York City.

"I would encourage you, when you wake up in the morning and you have some little thing go wrong — you stub your toe, your oatmeal overflows, you drop your coffee. Instead of telling yourself that it's going to be a horrible day, which is your human nature, don't let yourself do that," she said.

The 36-year-old former race car driver shared an anecdote about howshe used to have someone get her jazzed to do 5-7 minute media interviews she wasn't necessarily excited to do back in the day because the "depth of them was so shallow."

"Don't let yourself do that when you have an overwhelming day come up or meetings all day, things that you might not necessarily be looking forward to," she continued. "Look, you're going to do it and it's going to be over with. It will be here and gone in no time. You have to be positive about it."

During her conversation with Business Insider's chief technology correspondent, Julie Bort, Patrick also gave <a id="f94ae644-b88d-30b4-a480-f18ec557fe4a" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/danica-patrick-says-push-yourself-to-be-fit-2018-12?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> advice on getting fit and pushing one's boundaries </a> and spoke at length about how she came to leave racing.

You can read follow <a id="5aa37b1b-ba22-3702-a99f-a0050859d18d" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/category/ignition-2018?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest"> along with our IGNITION coverage here </a> .

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Danica Patrick has one piece advice for how to get back on track if you start your morning off on the wrong foot

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