Most startups spend their early years shipping products and growing users. Kalshi spent them fighting to exist. Founded by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, Kalshi set out to build a regulated financial exchange for real-world events. A place where people could put money behind their convictions and turn the future into a market. The path was brutal. They were told it was impossible. They were blocked by regulators. And eventually, they made one of the boldest decisions a startup can make: suing the government agency that oversaw them. After years of fighting, Kalshi broke through. Millions of customers. Billions…
Monday, May 25
