Stas Sles

Software Engineer, Tech Lead (Node.js, Golang). Obsessed with trading and investing. Play any racquet sport 🎾 🏓

[Stas Sles @shutyourprogram]

@RaminNasibov Letting Go - The Pathway of Surrender

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@marckohlbrugge Finally!

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@marckohlbrugge @nikitabier @rohanpaul_ai check him out

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@_offmylawn @levelsio Hey!
What a fun game!
I guess you can make it instantly even more fun, if you make humans bouncing from the ground instead of simply dying there!
This way the game is respawn, but feels much more logical then continuous falling from the skies

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@anything I’m in!

[James Camp 🛠,🛠 @JamesonCamp]

This is what I’ve been trying to tell you

[gusta @notgustadev]

>be Luana
>born in Brazil
>spend childhood as a ballerina, 8 hours a day, Bolshoi-level discipline
>97 kids fighting for ONE spot at Bolshoi
>become a 0.001% ballerina
>go to Austria for a Swan Lake Season.

>age 18, say "bye" to ballet
>want to join where the smartest and talent people are
>joins MIT
>grind mode: Machine Learning, Statistical Theory, algorithms
>CSAIL researcher, building AI before it was cool
>worked at Bridgewater, Five Rings, Citadel
>Wall Street freaking out
>Luana watching: “why not just trade on a binary event?”

>2018
>meet Tarek Mansour at MIT
>“what if we made a market for EVERYTHING?”
>found Kalshi with Tarek
>Kalshi means “everything” in Arabic
>vision: price the future, from elections to Oscars

>next 5 years = regulatory hell
>fight against regulators to proof that kalshi is not gambling

>2020
>after years of regulations battles
>kalshi become 1st regulated prediction market in US
>history made

>2021
>platform live in July
>start small with only economy markets
>keeps building

>2022
>Forbes 30 Under 30, only Brazilian on the list
>keep building

>2023
>push for election markets
>CFTC: “nah, too spicy”
>Luana and Tarek sue their own regulator

>2024
>win and able to have election markets
>October 2024: election markets LIVE
>$1.4B volume in TWO WEEKS
>#1 finance app during election night
>$42M/day peak, $1.97B total volume
>people thought they would die in volume since there's no election next year
>keep building

>2025
>PM's boom
>June: $2B valuation, Series C $185M led by Paradigm
>October: $5B valuation, 2.5x in 3 months, $300M Series D from Sequoia & a16z
>$50B annualized volume
>Sequoia, Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz throw money
>62% global market share, up from 3% last year
>$4B monthly volume
>sports trading takes over, $1.1B on NFL alone
>parlays launched, chaos ensues
>Robinhood integrates Kalshi
>prediction markets going to mainstream
>global expansion
>140 countries
>let people trade

>built infrastructure for truth
>be inspiration for woman's, immigrants and young people.

Luana lore is really inspiring and amazing.
Sometimes people forget how fantastic both founders of Kalshi really are @luanalopeslara and @mansourtarek_

Let the people trade.

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@levelsio So what will be our first step?

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🇪🇺 My fellow Europeans

You have to fight ChatControl 💪

Don't let @vonderleyen read your chats!

https://t.co/y5Plrj1p27

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@levelsio all the fighters I know always say: “better to avoid any fight”

no matter which fighting skills you have if there are 10 people surrounding you and some of them have the knives.

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@levelsio Microsoft has high stake in both OpenAI and Cursor. The arrow from OpenAI to Windsurf has become irrelevant though

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@levelsio Anyone can be kidnapped in Europe as well

https://t.co/MWulgs0BiN

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@aledeniz @GigiEinaudi @dyoburon @levelsio like, for real, bus pole?
what is the cost of it 300 chf max?
does not make any sense 🤯

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@levelsio Look, Buffet does drink coke his whole life and he is healthy and wealthy, so we all should happily follow him, right?
/s

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Hailuo 02 might be awesome, but this 4 mins queue lasts 4 hours already lmao 🤣

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@sobedominik What are the Paddle’s features, which won you as a client from Stripe?

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That’s how 6x matcha looks on the chart:

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I accidentally did matcha latte with 6x the amount of matcha in it 🍵
Let’s see if I can launch a product today instead of the end of the next week 😂

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I accidentally did matcha latte with 6x the amount of matcha in it 🍵
Let’s see if I can launch a product today instead of the end of the next week 😂

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@nikitabier I remember renting airbnb in Rouen for my mother and host tried to bill me doubled cleaning fee, because it was too dirty and the cleaner got tired.
The photo of “too dirty” had… a couple of hair and an used napkin.
I refused.He tried to charge through airbnb, airbnb declined 🤣

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@higgsfield_ai wow, that’s indeed amazing!