How much of Shark Tank is staged?

This show kicks arse. im one of those people, however, who, upon discovering that a majority of content is staged, would stop watching.

A quick google search shows that all of the sharks are wired and that the control center sends them questions to ask, specifically Kevin, who they deem the pressure man.

Cuban says that about 70% of the deals he makes actually go through. about 50% of all deals are actually made, because, a lot of times, the sharks will find further issues with things like financial records. it is essentially a good faith agreement.

I liked this bit from him:

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“…I love the scams. “With these life pills you can go 8 days without eating.” Obviously [ABC] edits [the pitch] so it goes down from 2.5 hours down to a half-hour down to 8 to 14 minutes. And so knowing it’s going to be edited, I’ll rail into them and say like, “F*ck you, there’s NO WAY…” I love to mess with them.”

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From everything else I read, it seems pretty legitimate. I thought it was cool that the meetings can last a few hours. Wish we could watch the entire thing somehow

yall have any other insight like the stuff above?