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An NHL Deal with Kalshi CEO & AI with Airbnb CEO 10/22/25

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, Investing, Business, News

4494 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The NHL has inked an official partnership with Kalshi and Polymarket, marking the first time a major sports league has teamed up with prediction markets. Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour discusses his platform’s sports volumes, potential regulatory issues, and competition with sportsbooks. Airbnb has launched new products and features to remake user vacations, and CEO Brian Chesky is just getting started. Chesky discusses the future of his company and the impact of AI. Plus, Netflix streamer numbers missed expectations, Mattel’s Barbie sales are down, and Meta has partnered with Blue Owl on a data center. Tarek Mansour - 19:20 Brian Chesky - 27:39 In this episode: Tarek Mansour, @mansourtarek_ Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bring in show music please.

0:03.0

Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on Squawk Pod.

0:09.0

Sports books, look out. The first major sports league has inked a deal with prediction markets, Kowlshee and Polly Market.

0:16.0

Kalshi's CEO Tarek Mansoor on his partnership with the NHL and whether more deals are coming soon.

0:21.8

What we have done here, and this is what's most important, we have set up a framework for

0:26.7

us to collaborate with a Big Four League, like the NHL.

0:31.0

Then Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, on new products the travel site has launched to remake

0:36.2

your vacation.

0:37.2

We imagine what if you can Airbnb more than Airbnb.

0:39.8

We launch services, we launch experiences, and since then, we've been hard at work.

0:44.1

And how he sees artificial intelligence taking over every corner of the internet.

0:48.9

Right now, it's like a gold rush.

0:51.6

Plus, Netflix's membership growth, sales of Barbie dolls are down, meta and Blue Owl developing

0:57.3

one giant data center, and AI chat bots are taking over.

1:01.7

I'm not as nervous about that piece of it as you are.

1:04.1

Because humans are going to be involved in this.

1:06.4

Oh, good.

1:07.4

But they maybe aren't that accurate all the time.

1:10.5

No kidding. It's Wednesday, October 22nd. Squawk Pod begins right now.

1:17.6

Stand Becky by in three, two, one. Cure. Oh yeah. Sorry.

1:24.1

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squackbox right here on CNBC. We're live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square. I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin. And, yeah, just speaking of some of those things in AI. I mean, sometimes you get wrong facts from it. Facts. Facts that are wrong. It's one thing for opinions. Alternate facts, as Kelly Ann Conway wants it. Okay, if you ask two of them what the 1929 adding average was for the Philadelphia Phillies. What year? 1929. You are so nice. Thanks. You believe that? She's writing an ad for me. She's running an ad for me. Thank you. No, but with all of them, I've said, are you sure? You need to check. Oh, yeah. You're right. Sorry. They will cop to it and not even apologize. Oh, mine apologizes to me all the time. Because I'm sorry. I got that wrong. Well, that's because you don't yell at it. Joe calls it an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. No, literally he calls calls it an idiot. No, it says, I violate all the, you're not supposed to, because they have feelings too, apparently. Yeah. The big news yesterday was what was happening with the commodities, the precious metals in particular. Gold down nearly 6% yesterday. I think it was 5 and 3 quarters percent. That was its worst day since June of 2013, so a dozen years

2:36.2

since it's seen a drop like that. It's indicated down a little bit weaker once again this morning,

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