Users express enthusiasm for Kalshi's regulatory compliance as a key edge and the metaphor of constantly fixing leaks while scaling startups, agreeing with the insights and seeking more details on the challenges involved.
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@Alfred_Lin @mansourtarek_ Holes never stop, agreed. Past a certain size, a real skill is building a team wired to spot the next leak before it reaches you.
@bhalligan @Kalshi @mansourtarek_ love this. what’s the hardest leak you’ve had to fix?
.@mansourtarek_ has a great metaphor for scaling a company: you're driving a ship as hard as you can, and there's always a hole leaking water somewhere. One kind of founder stares at it all day. Another throws a rug over it and tells everyone things are fine. Great founders stop waiting for calm water. They resign themselves to the holes constantly appearing, and get good at spotting the next one before it spreads. It sounds grim. It's actually the whole game. If you’re lucky enough to build a legendary company, the work will never end. The trick is to love what you do enough that you’re energized by fixing the holes. You can see it in @Kalshi's own progress: the CFTC lawsuit, then over-reliance on a few big brokers, then communicating clear lines between regulated markets and offshore ones. Solve one, the next is already taking on water.
Every startup has a fatal existential leak that threatens to sink the business at any given time. @Kalshi has been through this many times. As @mansourtarek_ says, theirs now is proving what actually separates a regulated, onshore exchange like @Kalshi from the unregulated players giving the whole category a black eye. To be the best, you need to stare directly at that agonizing vulnerability every single day until it’s fixed rather than delegating the pain. Look at the leak. 👀 Links to the full episode in the comments 👇
He compared the startup scaling process to steering a leaking ship.
Users express enthusiasm for Kalshi's regulatory compliance as a key edge and the metaphor of constantly fixing leaks while scaling startups, agreeing with the insights and seeking more details on the challenges involved.
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