Tarek Mansour
Co-founder and co-CEO of Kalshi, the first regulated prediction market exchange in the US.
“We got approved in November 2020 to get the first sort of regulated exchange for prediction markets.”
Source→“If you ask Luana what maybe like 80, 85 of the people at the company today are doing, she knows. Because she probably checked with them on Slack in the last 48 hours.”
Source→“At the time, apparently Two Sigma used to like use satellite images of like the parking lot at Walmart to figure out how many cars were coming in.”
Source→“Insurance companies have pulled out because they don't know how to price hurricane risk anymore... We get a lot of calls around hurricane season where people are like, hey, I want to buy X amount of hurricane hitting this town... I just want, if the hurricane hits the town, I get paid.”
Source→“When you think about a gambling business model, it's a business model where the primary KPI, the thing that will not just predict your net income will be pretty much equal to net income is your customer's losses.”
Source→“The hedge funds have way more information than I do. There isn't a way for me to be truly informed.”
Source→“Brian Chesky put it better... we don't manage people, we manage work. So people that just generally have high agency — we never have to check on whether they're doing something.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.