Kalshi co-founder credits flat structure for scaling without the bureaucracy

Luana Lopes Lara says skipping formal hierarchies has let the prediction market grow headcount fast without drowning in meetings Most startups that hire aggressively end up with more meetings, not more momentum. Kalshi says it has dodged that trap. Speaking at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit in Santa Barbara, California, Kalshi co-founder and COO Luana Lopes Lara said the prediction market has scaled its workforce by avoiding formal hierarchies altogether. The timing matters.