Kalshi CEO Wants to Monetize ‘Any Difference in Opinion’

How much do you want to bet that the proliferation of Kalshi is going to make everyone’s lives a little worse? Earlier today, the “prediction market” platform that allows people to “trade contracts” on future events in a way that is somehow legally distinct from gambling announced a partnership with CNN to place odds on everything from elections to the weather. It’s just one part of the company’s apparent plan to, in the words of co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour,…