Shayne Coplan is the founder of the world’s largest prediction market, Polymarket . At 27, the American tech bro has now climbed another milestone. Thanks to the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) parent company Intercontinental Exchange Inc investing $2 billion into the platform, the tech maverick has not just entered the billionaire club, but is now also the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The up-and-coming tech titan broke the anticipated investment news via his social media account, proclaiming that the $2 billion in-flow would raise Polymarket’s valuation to $9 billion post-money.

Digging deeper into the company’s origin story, he wrote, “The past two years have been surreal. Going from a write off to creating a category,

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