Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network, and I'm Kara Swisher. We're off for the holiday today, but we have something good for you, an episode of Access with Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger. In this episode, Alex and Ellis talk about the rise of storytelling in tech and why X is now openly pleading for its haters to come back. as if.

Then they sit down with Tarek Mansoor, co founder and CEO of Kalshi, to discuss insider trading, his rivalry with poly market, regulatory chaos, sports betting, and why prediction markets are having a real moment. Enjoy and we'll be back in your feeds later this week. You recently made a comment that went kind of viral. I think you got a lot of heat for it. You said you want to financialize everything.

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