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Kalshi cofounder and COO Luana Lopes Lara told #FortuneMPW the prediction market platform is an "unbiased source of information and data," and good for society.

"You should be able to make money on what you know and what you care about," she said.

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00:00You should be able to make money on what you know and what you care about.
00:04Do you think your product is good for society?
00:06Oh, absolutely. 100%. That was the easiest question.
00:09Why is that?
00:10Well, I think having an unbiased source of information and data about what's going to happen in the future
00:17is more needed now than ever before.
00:19And I think that we actually see that so clearly that a lot of our users,
00:22when they say, what do you think Kaushy is an alternative to?
00:24They say it's an alternative to Twitter.
00:26Because they go to Twitter to get information,
00:28but on Twitter, whatever has the most likes or the most reshares,
00:32which is the most insane thing, gets the most likes and reshares,
00:34and most of them are not true, is what you're going to see.
00:37But you come to Kaushy and you get this unbiased source of information
00:40because you're incentivizing people to be right.
00:42You only get paid if you're right.
00:43So you get this one number that becomes kind of like the wisdom of the crowd,
00:48the aggregation of everyone's opinions.
00:49And that value, you cannot find.
00:52The Federal Reserve put out papers about this.
00:54Like a lot of professors are talking about this too.
00:57That value of forecasting that comes from these markets is really, really unbeatable.
01:02And also, I think that people should be able to make money on what they know.
01:05If you have an expertise and you know a lot about movies,
01:08you should be able to, if you watch every Oscar movie,
01:10why are you not able to make money on that,
01:12but you can make money on some stocks that you actually never heard about
01:15and you're trying to trade options?
01:16You should be able to make money on what you know and what you care about.

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