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+1 on this. This is not how any of us operate.

Regulation in this space is really tough and thorough - we've been battling through it for years now (also explains why this post is coming so long after the end of our batch!).




The facts presented above make your company look very shady, and this answer is not clearing up anything.

Like this most people will have to assume you really just paid off / bribed Brian Quintenz.


this insider article should clear up a few things! https://www.capitolaccountdc.com/p/gambling-on-politics-an-i...


It's paywalled and you not wanting to say anything yourself just smells bad


Indeed. Why not take up Scott Alexander's proposal if there truly is nothing untoward here?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mantic-monday-81522

> If someone from Kalshi wants to swear, in so many words, “We promise we put no effort into convincing CFTC to quash PredictIt”, I will believe them (although I would still suspect the CFTC was following a thought process like “now that Kalshi exists it would be embarrassing to let less-regulated markets exist alongside it”). Until then, I think cui bono remains the right question.

Here's your chance, 'tmansour: if you didn't do anything wrong, why not say so yourself?

I have no horse in this race or involvement with either party at all; I'm just interested because this feels like quite the betrayal of the usual ethos we'd expect from YC affiliation, and your responses on the topic so far are evasive enough to be a red flag in and of themselves.




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