Kalshi's CEO compared his company's 'net positive' rivalry with Polymarket to Tom Brady and Eli Manning

Kalshi's CEO compared his company's 'net positive' rivalry with Polymarket to Tom Brady and Eli Manning

Kalshi's CEO said their rivalry with Polymarket encourages them to push products and marketing harder.Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty ImagesKalshi's CEO said rivalry with Polymarket drives both companies to push harder.He likened the competition to famous sports rivalries, like Tom Brady and Eli Manning.Kalshi recently announced major media partnerships and a $1 billion funding round.Kalshi's CEO says his company's rivalry wi…

Kalshi CEO Frames Polymarket Rivalry as a High-Stakes ‘War for Legitimacy’

For Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, the company’s duel with Polymarket is the kind of pressure that forces a new market to mature. In his interview with 20VC, he framed this rivalry as a "ferocious" battle akin to Brady vs. Manning or Messi vs. Ronaldo. He argued that the infighting is what will ultimately propel prediction markets into the financial mainstream. The intense competition is what forces both companies to push beyond their limits, transfo…