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    This Lebanese-American Is Breaking All Barriers In The Tech World

    By Karine KeuchkerianJuly 9, 2022
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    Among the many Lebanese youths that are striving in the diaspora, the Lebanese-American Tarek Mansour is breaking all the barriers in the tech world.

    Mansour, age 25, holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

    He is the co-founder and CEO of the New York-based platform Kalshi, a platform that allows investors to place bets on future events, such as how many Americans will receive the Covid-19 vaccine.

    Mansour used to work at Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment banking and investment management firm.

    While in that job, according to Forbes magazine, his clients wanted to hedge their investments during Brexit but he did not have a direct way to do so.

    That led him in 2018 to start the platform Kalshi (meaning “everything” in Arabic) with MIT alumna, Luana Lopes Lara.

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    The most challenging part was getting regulatory approval, but as luck would have it, the start-up became the first to be regulated as a financial platform by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in November 2020.

    Numerous billionaires jumped in to invest in Kalshi, which raised $36 million since its launching in July 2021.

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    In 2022, Tarek Mansour was featured on the 10th edition of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

    Among the 5 other Lebanese featured on the prestigious list, Mansour was the youngest of the selection, and one of the standouts.

    Related: Meet The 6 Lebanese On Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List 2022.

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