Election night at Kalshi HQ
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
At 8PM on election night in New York City, I arrived at an unmarked office building in the Meatpacking District.
Inside, a few dozen young Kalshi employees moved between clusters of desks, pizza boxes, and a large projector displaying live markets for the day's key races. The vibe was quiet but focused. On the screen, numbers flickered as bets adjusted in real time.
Near the projector, co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara chatted with a CBS News crew filming a segment for the next morni …