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Alex Heath

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Obviously, they scaled much ahead of us.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

They basically went ahead and before us.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And that was a difficult period for the company because like, that was, I would say, the most difficult period because we were kind of like hamstrung, like being told no by the government.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And, you know, we, and then you had a competitor that's sort of like doing it, you know, and you've seen this kind of, I think Coinbase had their fair share of competitors that operate that way.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And that happened over and over.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And it was tough because you go to the regulators, you're blocking us, but you're not blocking them.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

How is this fair?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And that was, I think, the toughest part of the journey.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

But the beauty is when we won the lawsuit last year, so we sued the government over the election market, then we won that, and we were on the right side of the law.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

The market share obviously changed, but the mind share now, and we were looking at the metrics for this last quarter, like the fall,

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

we're actually something like 55% of the Google searches in the US.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like we've actually overtaken even in Mindshare.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so, you know, for a while we've been leaning on like the core business metrics and the product and the team, but now we're also actually at least equivalent in terms of the Mindshare.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

We've gained a lot of territory there.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So it's just a matter of time.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I think at the end of the day, everything will converge towards a better product, you know, and I feel pretty good about our product.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I think that's on them to comment.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I think that like... Oh, come on.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I mean, look, our view is like...

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

We approached it differently.