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Alex Heath

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And also the people at Kalshi can't trade.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So we, because we run a regular exchange, we cannot actually trade.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

You have a no trading rule.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

It's also like the regs, the regulatory framework doesn't enable us to trade on one exchange.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

It's an interesting thing because, you know, it's hard to build a product when you can actually reuse it.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

It makes it a little bit harder.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So there's like that interesting dynamic.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I just have to be very close to the customers.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like really, really be very, I mean, it's cliche, like all companies obviously talk a lot about staying close to the customer, but I think this is especially true here where you just have to really be

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

at all times as close as possible to the customer to basically figure out what you need to build and how to make it better and what are the points of friction.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

But there are some industries where the technologist or the product builder

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

cannot fully experience their own products.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

You know, it's, it could be like in hard tech, or like, if you're kind of machinery, like, right, like you, you're not sitting in the office and like operating some heavy machinery.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so you also have to really kind of embed yourself with the customer.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

But yeah, no, I think it's feasible, but it is a challenge.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Yeah, but it also would work.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

You have to have like a six-month post-calci period.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So if you leave, you have to wait for six months before you could trade.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So, but it is, I mean, there are ways to kind of like, like you could still use the app without trading, right?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like, so that could get you a lot of the, I mean, that could get you a lot of the flows, except for maybe the core trading flow.