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Alex Heath

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And if we had listened to the markets, maybe we would have kept the mask on for a little bit longer and we might have avoided the second wave.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Why did you scare my grandma with that comment?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Interesting.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I think that, yeah, I saw that.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I mean, it was taken out of context and people sort of like, you know, took in all sorts of directions.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

But really what it means is this notion of

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

If you believe that markets work, what they do is they discover prices.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

They're a very good mechanism for discovering fundamentals.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

I think, as you said it in a great way, fundamentals behind something.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And then uncovering as much truth as possible behind that thing.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so what we're saying is like,

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Sure, applying that to companies is very important.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Applying that to commodities or currencies is very important.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

But what if we applied it to some of the most important pressing questions about our future?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Could we apply it to a much broader set of things?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And look, from first principles, we live in a world where the ratio of noise to signal has gone up a lot.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Misinformation is everywhere.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Polarization is kind of at an all-time high.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

People say different things about everything and you don't know what to, like, you go to Twitter, if you go to my Twitter feed versus yours, we might see literally two entirely different versions of the word.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

To us, like, this is kind of a bit of an antidote.