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Bobby Allyn

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
219 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Up First from NPR
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So there's like sports betting folks who are getting in on it.

Up First from NPR
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And then you find people because here's the thing.

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I mean, I talk to these traders all the time.

Up First from NPR
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Most of them are young.

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

Most of them are male.

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Most of them are chronically online.

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And some of them even, you know, first got interested in trading assets and the financialization of everything through things like Roblox.

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

Like one trader told me he got really good.

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

Yeah, this one guy told me he got really good at trading digital assets in Roblox.

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

And then he saw an ad for Kalshi and now it's his favorite thing.

Up First from NPR
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And he has hundreds of thousands of dollars in his Kalshi portfolio.

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

So people are coming from all over the place.

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

But look, I want to caution here because it's not that every single person who uses one of these apps instantly becomes super rich.

Up First from NPR
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I mean, the most common experience is losing money.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Again, it really depends.

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And because both of these companies are private and don't exactly release profits and losses platform-wide, it's hard to have a complete sense.

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

But outside analyses that have been done of Polymarket and Kalashie do show that most people โ€“

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

are losing money.

Up First from NPR
Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

I mean, that's just the way it is.