US Edition29-year-old becomes youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world
Luana Lopes Lara’s stake in Kalshi reached $1.3 billion after the firm's $11 billion valuation, surpassing previous youngest self-made female billionaires, Forbes reported.
- On Tuesday, Luana Lopes Lara, 29, became the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire after Kalshi's valuation rose to $11 billion, Forbes reported.
- After winning regulatory clearance, Kalshi, treated as a financial trading platform by U.S. regulators, grew after Y Combinator support and a legal fight with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, going live in September 2024.
- A former Bolshoi-trained ballerina, Luana Lopes Lara told Forbes, "We saw that most trading happens when people have some view about the future, and then try to find a way to put that in the markets," and Alex Immerman praised her persistence from ballet training, saying, "There are few better trainings for being told 'no' and pushing through anyway than being a professional ballerina."
- The change displaces names such as Taylor Swift and Lucy Guo, 31-year-old Scale AI co-founder, and follows Forbes' rescission of Kylie Jenner's title in 2020.
- With more than $1bn traded weekly, Kalshi has seen investors buying shares, boosting co-founder Tarek Mansour's stake and reshaping wealth rankings.
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Forbes has confirmed that Luana López Lara, a 29-year-old former ballerina from Brazil, has become the youngest woman in the world to earn a billion dollars on her own.
She's outperforming both Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift: business magazine Forbes has named Luana Lopes Lara (29) the youngest female "self-made billionaire" ever. The former ballerina from Brazil owes her success to the creation of the "gambling site" Kalshi. With this, she dethrones Lucy Guo, the CEO of Scale AI.
At the age of 29, a Brazilian woman becomes the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. Her success is the result of an unusually hard journey.
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The Economic TimesAt 29, she is the youngest self-made billionaire — who exactly is Luana Lopes Lara?
Former ballerina Luana Lopes Lara, 29, is now the world's youngest self-made female billionaire after her prediction market startup, Kalshi, reached an $11 billion valuation. Enduring rigorous ballet training and academic challenges, she transitioned to tech, co-founding Kalshi with MIT classmate Tarek Mansour. The platform's success, despite regulatory battles, highlights her resilience and entrepreneurial drive.
She's 29 years old, born in Santa Catarina, Brazil, and her two passions catapulted her to financial success.She dreams of becoming "the next Steve Jobs" and founded a company valued at 11 billion dollars.
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