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Alex Heath

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like for example, maybe where Ubers are most needed are like in urban areas, but that's where it's harder to get riders and they're less needed in like, sorry, by rural areas, but it's mostly in urban areas, but you still have to build a critical mass in urban area to get to the rural.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And I think it's a little bit similar here.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like you have to get enough of a critical mass in a certain places to basically get, for example, I, you know, for example, personally, I'm always interested in the more longer term forecast.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

The things that are sort of like, will AI overtake?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

What is McRib?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Is it the burger?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So a lot, I mean, and then the second point I was going to say, so a lot of it comes from our team that like are figuring out what's trending on Twitter and like what's double people's mind, like what's in the news.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

But the other thing, it's like, this is the other thing, like, look, I believe in markets, right?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like I'm a believer in markets and like, it's like, look at what customers want and like what they're interested in, what they're asking about and like have them suggest markets.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

The one thing, the one cover is like, that doesn't mean you just do everything, anything.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I mean, we, again, we're regulated.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Everything goes to a regulated pipeline and

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

There's a number of things that we don't touch, like war, terrorism, assassination, violence, things that could create a bad incentive.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

We never touch those.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

One, because it would be illegal.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And two, even if it wasn't, I think those would not necessarily, even though there could be interest from the forecast, like for example, if you have a war market, I think it could create a perverse incentive.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

It could create a bad incentive.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And we basically shy away and do not touch those.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So I think you have to have a balance.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And I think we've gotten fairly good at that balance.