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Kalshi (Prediction Market) - Footnote 10

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The claim states that Mansour had a brief stint as a quantitative trader at Citadel after graduation (May 2018 to May 2019), but the source only mentions that he left after five months to co-found Kalshi, without specifying the exact dates or that it was after graduation. The claim states that Mansour completed a BSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics in 2018, but the source does not explicitly state that he completed all three in 2018. It only mentions that he completed his BSc in 2018.

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Found: Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara met as international undergraduate students at MIT, where they studied computer science, mathematics, and electrical engineering. Their shared interest in financial …

Note: The claim states that Mansour had a brief stint as a quantitative trader at Citadel after graduation (May 2018 to May 2019), but the source only mentions that he left after five months to co-found Kalshi, without specifying the exact dates or that it was after graduation. The claim states that Mansour completed a BSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics in 2018, but the source does not explicitly state that he completed all three in 2018. It only mentions that he completed his BSc in 2018.

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