The conversation explores the rise of storytelling in tech, contrasting it with traditional journalism, and examines X's (formerly Twitter) efforts to lure back journalists. Alex and Ellis interview Tarek Mansour, CEO of Kalshi, a prediction market platform. Mansour discusses the regulatory challenges and the company's commitment to operating within legal boundaries, contrasting it with competitors like Polymarket. He addresses concerns about insider trading, explaining Kalshi's safeguards and the separation of commercial and regulatory functions. Mansour defends his statement about "financializing everything," clarifying it as applying market-based truth-seeking to broader societal questions beyond traditional finance, and speaks on the incentives it creates for people to research and trade on their knowledge.
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