Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
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Tarek Mansour and Luana Lara are cofounders of Calci, one of the new prediction market firms that rose to prominence in the November twenty four elections. They spent four years prelaunch fighting for regulatory approval to build the first onshore prediction market in The US and now trade more than $10,000,000,000 each month in prediction contracts.
Cheers. Cheers. Cheers to you guys. What
is this that we're drinking, Luana?
It's Brazilian beer.
Okay.
It's our famous most famous Brazilian beer, I would say. Very light. I don't know if you like it. Very light.
So what is the split between you guys? Maybe in terms of responsibilities, but more interestingly in terms of outlook.
Well, we actually come from the exact same background. We studied math in CS at MIT, same internships, everything. But I'm a very, very optimistic person. Love taking risk. I think everything's gonna work out. He's very paranoid, more on the negative side. So it's always like a very good, I think, balance, and I think that realists, outside of what we do day to day, that's where really the difference between us that works out.
I mean, there's a level of background. So I was gonna be a trader. That was really what I was gonna do. And you know, when you're a trader, you probably I don't if you've ever met, sort of, or spent enough time with the persona, but it's like a very exact John
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