Tarek Mansour on Kalshi's Plan to Create Markets in Everything
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Hello, Oglots listeners and viewers. You're about to get a conversation with Tariq Mansour, CEO of Kelsi. This was recorded live on stage at Chicago's Untitled Supper Club. We had a blast, and you we hope you enjoyed the show. You're definitely having a moment. The South Park episode I had last night was all about prediction markets.
Did you watch it live?
I try to avoid watching or reading anything about us without kind of getting the the third party reaction before. Oh. So we didn't know because we saw the thing, like the announcement a few days ago that they're doing an absorption prediction market, and we started kind of imagining all the types of things that they were gonna do. It was crazy. I mean, the highlight, think, is like they copied the app, like- Yeah. Exactly. That was, I mean, even had the referral bonus, they even had some of the bugs we have in the app. Like, it was unbelievable. So, but, you know, it pretty cool. I mean, there
Why do you think prediction markets are having this moment now? They've been around for decades, literally, why now?
Yeah, mean, I think there's like path dependence in these things, right? Like it's not sort of like, I'm a strong believer that sort of like, in history, you have to have a few agents that sort of like push the boundary of certain things, somebody's gotta do it type thing. But my view on this, and this why we started the company, is the fundamentals are there, like this should be a very large market. And we could talk a little bit about the history, but when we first started the company, this idea of sort of like a financial market that prices questions about the future, sort of we were very d
Yeah, traded on there a lot.
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