Growing up in Lebanon, Tarek Mansour said he was a tech dummy. He didn’t know what Google, which is only two years younger than the 29-year-old, did or was. But just like the company that made up a word that is now entrenched in American culture, Mansour took a word from his native language and introduced Kalshi into the American lexicon.
“We had one shitty computer at home that barely worked,” he said in an interview with Sourcery in February. “I grew up, I never even thought that Google was a company — that’s the level of exposure I had … I was very non-entrepreneurial, I knew nothing, I just knew math.”
