Tarek Mansour

So in this context, people are probably seeing headlines recently about there was this trader, I think the name was like Alpha Raccoon or something, who netted over like a million dollars by very accurately predicting Google's 2025 year in search rankings to the extent that like this person probably worked inside Google.

But that happened on Polymarket, and you don't actually hear stories of this, or at least I haven't seen stories of something like this on Kalshi.

Maybe I just haven't seen it.

But I imagine for you, you get lumped in with those kind of headlines, and it's like, oh, prediction markets allow insider trading, blah, blah, blah.

Why did that happen on Polymarket and not Kalshi?

Yeah, you all are really big, but Polymarket is too.

And it's actually amazing to me the amount of mindshare Polymarket has in the tech community, especially considering they're not officially launched yet in the US.

I was just at the Dealbook Summit in New York where Andrew Russ Sorkin was talking about Polymarket from the stage constantly.

The All In guys talk about them.

They're everywhere.

Shane is everywhere.

I really want to know how you feel about that.

I have to imagine polymarket being so prevalent in the mind of like the tech community specifically bothers you.

But how do you think about that and your rivalry with them right now?

Do you think Polymarket is doing things the right way?

It's a very fierce rivalry, I would say.

I have studied Timothy Chalamet's eyes more than anyone and therefore I know that he is SKD, right?

That's like, that's what you're saying is like, there's people who may obsess about things.

That's gotta be a prediction market, right?

Chalamet and SKD, do you know about this?