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Nov 2024
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Ed speaks with Tarek Mansour, co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, a regulated exchange and prediction market that lets you trade on future events. They discuss Kalshi’s fight to legalize betting on the election, how to deal with negative press, and his prediction for the outcome of the election.

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