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That’s the way Augur worked at the time. I thought that all this stuff was going to take off in like a month, not in five years. The person who created the market got a small fee from every bettor, so I was like, “Oh, I’ll create these viral prediction markets.” At the time, people would ask me to go on Gizmodo TV. So I was thinking, “I’ll just, you know, tell a few people about my pee tape market, then the bets are going to roll in.”