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At Kalshi, most employees report directly to both founders of the largest prediction market in the US in what CEO Tarek Mansour described as a deliberately “unusual” management structure.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on a recent episode of Sequoia Capital’s “Long Strange Trip,” Mansour said he and fellow cofounder Luana Lopes Lara have roughly 150 direct reports with little traditional hierarchy in between.<\/p>\n

“There’s some functions that like we sort of let them do like what they do,” Mansour said, “but pretty much most of the company reports to between the two of us.”<\/p>\n

Mansour and Lara founded Kalshi in 2018 after they met as students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n

The CEO acknowledged that the management style is “pretty unusual,” but said the tradeoff is a company that can adapt quickly, even if it’s “kind of chaotic.”<\/p>\n

“I think you could build an organization that’s somewhat okay with that, because what you get out of chaos is like continuous, constant adaptability,” Mansour said. “It’s very easy for a company to adapt, very easy.”<\/p>\n

His goal, Mansour said, is to keep the company flexible enough to “constantly reorient and reassemble around the biggest challenges or biggest opportunities.”<\/p>\n

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“You want to be able to do that with no friction \u2014 that’s inherently chaotic,” he said, adding, “your structure needs to be as adaptable as possible.”<\/p>\n

During the podcast, Mansour told host and Sequoia Capital partner Brian Halligan that he doesn’t follow any leadership playbook and described his approach as “making it up as I go.”<\/p>\n

Mansour called he and his cofounder, Lara, “probably very sort of like entrepreneurially illiterate.”<\/p>\n

“We haven’t read all the books, we haven’t watched all the podcasts,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mansour said he concentrates on Kalshi’s big-picture strategy, while Lara focuses on the day-to-day operations of the company.<\/p>\n

“I actually think we kind of disagree by design,” Mansour said. “Like we have this thing, this dynamic over time, it’s become a thing where like we essentially will always take the opposite side of the argument.”<\/p>\n

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