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Rebecca Kossnick: Meta's First Prediction Market. The Inside Story of Facebook Forecast
🎙️NEXTPredict Podcast #5 with Rebecca Kossnick, Co-founder & CEO at Hypernatural
Before Kalshi. Before Polymarket. Before prediction markets were on the front page of every newspaper, Meta built one.
In 2020, a small team inside Facebook launched a product called Forecast. No real money, just points and public reputation. Every forecast was made public. And it was, by any measure, remarkably accurate.
Rebecca Kossnick joins Pierre on the NEXTPredict Podcast to tell the full inside story and to explain why Meta is now building a second one, called Arena.
⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Welcoming Rebecca Kossnick
01:30 - How Forecast got started inside Facebook's team
03:30 - Launching in April 2020 and the first wave of users
07:29 - The status problem Forecast was solving
10:52 - The challenges: explaining probabilities to users in 2019
15:47 - The grand vision
18:30 - Why Forecast didn't survive
23:48 - Hypernatural: the AI video company Rebecca and Taylor built next
25:43 - Where prediction markets and AI video collide
27:36 - Opportunity or problem?
30:18 - Where does Rebecca see Hypernatural in three years?
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24 Sept 2026
Michael Pedersen: Emerging verticals, the new map for iGaming operators
🎙️ NEXT.io (https://next.io/) Podcast #26 (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/267)8 with Michael Pedersen, CEO of Swivel Gaming
In this episode of the NEXT.io (https://next.io/) Podcast, Michael Pedersen — CEO of Swivel Gaming and one of the most experienced operators in the emerging verticals space — maps out the four products quietly reshaping the iGaming industry: sweepstakes, card rips, prediction markets and ADW.
Swivel has been building in this space for five years. Michael took over as CEO in March and relaunched the business around exactly these verticals. In this conversation he goes through each one in depth: what it is, where the opportunity is, and where it falls short.
⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:36 - Sponsors
03:41 - Welcoming Michael Pedersen
03:50 - Why Swivel doubled down on emerging verticals
06:26 - How many emerging verticals actually exist?
08:19 - Legal opinions vs. regulators
11:08 - Sweepstakes:dying or still growing?
16:15 - The sweepstakes player vs. the iGaming player
20:04 - Can sweepstakes work outside the US?
23:22 - Card rips: what is it and why is it blowing up?
31:55 - How complex is card rips for operators?
39:26 - Prediction markets: the iGaming operator perspective
44:39 - The ProphetX partnership explained
52:27 - ADW explained: a slot machine powered by a real horse race
56:08 - The challenges with ADW margins
01:00:15 - Are there more emerging verticals on the horizon?
01:06:12 - Emerging verticals are like social media platforms
01:07:37 - "iGaming now feels old school"
01:08:17 - Where will Swivel be in three years?
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22 Sept 2026
Chuck Todd on the Midterms & the Prediction Market Blind Spots
🎙️NEXTPredict Podcast #4 with Chuck Todd on the 2026 Midterms, Prediction Market Blind Spots & the Future of Political Forecasting
Chuck Todd spent three decades at NBC News as political director and moderator of Meet the Press. He now runs The Chuck ToddCast independently. He is also the official ambassador for NEXTPredict New York, taking place October 22-23.
In this episode, Pierre sits down with Chuck to do something very few people are qualified to do: speak to both the political reality and the prediction market picture at the same time and point out exactly where the two come apart.
⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:39 - Welcoming Chuck Todd
01:51 - Are we really living in unprecedented times?
06:03 - What actually unites American politics
11:46 - The midterms: pattern repeating or something different?
13:25 - "Blue wave or blue tsunami?"
15:48 - The agricultural tariff story nobody is covering
17:42 - The Trump voter tunes in much later
19:00 - Texas: the race that could reshape American politics
24:21 - The youth turnout problem
29:05 - Trump making it about himself — mistake or only play left?
31:30 - The Iran war: fractures inside the Republican coalition
34:24 - Unpopular wars as political undoing
36:38 - The Pete Hagseth impeachment vote
38:34 - The Democratic Party: no leader, no alignment
39:45 - Michigan as the decider
44:04 - The rise of the democratic socialist movement
45:05 - The K-shaped economy
47:46 - Will the midterms happen on time?
49:40 - The real risk is not the election. It's the certification.
51:12 - Leaving NBC: the pressure from corporate boardrooms was real
56:07 - What Chuck wants to learn at NEXTPredict NYC
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