Mansour: Sports betting dominance is temporary; culture markets will scale
Tarek Mansour · Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Dec 8, 2025 · at 6:15
Tarek Mansour is the co-founder and CEO of prediction market platform Kalshi. He addresses critics who label Kalshi as merely a sports betting platform.
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“And it's a matter of time to like, you know, we scale the number of markets, we scale the liquidity, and I think those one day will be very big. So sports is very big right now, but I don't think it's kind of like a, I think it's a moment in time.”
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