Jacki McGavick (@jackikotkiewicz)

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NEWS: Thrilled to announce I’ve joined @Kalshi.

After serving @POTUS in the @WhiteHouse, I’m proud to be joining a company building something uniquely American: a federally regulated prediction market that is innovating right here in the United States.

Kalshi gives ordinary people a way to cut through the noise and fake news — and get rewarded for being right.

Excited to help tell that story 🚀

Jacki McGavick @jackikotkiewicz Nov 4

So incredibly proud of my husband @GatesMcgavick. He worked tirelessly to help make Byron Donalds Florida’s next governor, and I know just how much this means to him. He is so talented, and I couldn’t be happier to see all of his hard work pay off. ❤️

Gates McGavick Verified account @GatesMcgavick Nov 4

Governor-elect @ByronDonalds conducts his first press conference following tonight’s election victory

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Jacki McGavick @jackikotkiewicz Oct 26

"Why use a prediction market when I can just use a sportsbook?"

This is a good read on why the incentives (and therefore the product) are different. 👇

Brandon Beckhardt Verified account @beckhardt Oct 26

There’s a reason prediction market adoption is accelerating.

Sportsbooks have an inherently predatory incentive: they win when you lose. That drives a lot of bad outcomes for consumers: house-set prices, limits on winners, and VIP programs designed to keep losing customers playing.

The incentives of markets are different. Exchanges take a small fee for facilitating trades between participants on an open market. The business depends on people choosing to trade, not on them losing.

That changes the product. You can set the price you’re willing to trade at. Other participants can compete to offer you a better one. And you don’t get limited simply because you’re winning.

An open exchange, where participants compete to offer the best prices, creates value for fans, traders, and businesses:
• Sharps typically limited by sportsbooks can participate, helping improve forecasts that everyone from season ticket holders to local businesses uses to make decisions.
• People and businesses can hedge risk at competitive prices, from a local bar that relies on a team’s playoff run to a national advertiser whose campaign depends on which teams advance. More businesses are using prediction markets this way.
• Regular fans get better prices on the trades they want to make.

These aren’t small differences. They’re what make an open exchange a fundamentally different product for consumers.

People have recognized the difference. Excited to see the NBA recognize the value of the exchange model as well.
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Jacki McGavick @jackikotkiewicz Oct 20

When your team loses, your business doesn’t have to

Nicolas Hull Verified account @Nhull28 Oct 20

An LA hospitality group runs 25 bars, many of them right by Dodger Stadium. Every extra playoff game means packed bars. An early exit means lost revenue they were counting on.

So they hedged it. They put $60,000 on Kalshi on the Dodgers *not* making the World Series.

The Dodgers lost the NLCS to the Brewers. The position returned nearly 2x, helping cover the playoff business that *never* came.

A Columbia law professor told Fortune it works like “a form of bespoke insurance.”

Read the full story here: fortune.com/2026/10/19/pre…
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Jacki McGavick @jackikotkiewicz Oct 19

For bars near Dodger Stadium, a World Series run would have meant a huge boost in business. When the Dodgers came up short, this group’s Kalshi position helped cover the revenue those games would have brought in.

Businesses of every size are discovering that federally regulated prediction markets offer a practical, transparent way to manage risk and protect their bottom line.

Jacki McGavick

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