Kalshi cofounders' favorite users include 'this guy who lives in Kansas' who is their best inflation forecaster

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour

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• Kalshi's cofounders said their platform was designed to help random people flourish.
• They said their best market makers "may not actually be the experts or the authority figures."
• One of their favorites is an "Ariana Grande superfan" who knows a lot about music charts.

The brains behind Kalshi say some of their best prediction market makers are "actually random people."

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