20VC: Kalshi's $1BN Raise, the Polymarket Feud, and the Battle to Replace Traditional Media

I think this kind of what happened with Calci in the election was a bit of a Chad GPT moment for our industry. An industry truly becomes an industry when there's a rivalry. Without polymarket, we wouldn't have pushed our marketing and pushed our product as hard. Did you ever cross paths with SBF? And what did you learn from observing FTX's implosion?

This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and Calchi is one of the fastest growing companies on the planet right now. In the last week they announced their $1 billion raise at an $11 billion valuation. They announced partnerships with CNN and CNBC, and today their founder Tarek joins me for his only interview following these announcements to give me the exclusive lowdown. But before we dive into the show today, Are you drowning in AI tools, chat GPT for writing, notion for docs, Gmail for email, Slack for comms, and you're constantly copy pasting between them all, losing context and losing time.

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