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Alex Heath

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And we were hurt pretty dramatically by that.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

But we won and we were right.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so I think that's number one.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I think that's kind of like a beauty.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I came from Lebanon, right?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like that is something that would never happen in Lebanon.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like just like the notion of like, oh, you know, I disagree with the government.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I'm going to go sue it.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

It's like, where do you even go?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like, I don't even know.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like if you walk into the courthouse with a lawsuit in hand, I don't even know.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like I think they turn it into a cigarette maybe.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And the South Park thing, I think it's just a statement that like we built something that has gone mainstream.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like I think that like people care about.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And I think that's a, you know, that's, I think that it's been a wild ride to get there.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

The way I'll answer this question is I'll sort of go back to kind of the core of how, like kind of why we started the company.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So I spent time in financial markets, like at Goldman and at Citadel.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

At Goldman, the thing that struck me is sort of the large institutions, I was there in 2016.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

There were two big events in 2016, Brexit, and then the US election, so the first Trump election.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

All the kind of big guys, what they were focused on is essentially