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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Former ballet dancer becomes youngest self-made female billionaire, overtakes Taylor Swift
Luana Lopes Lara, 29, became the world's youngest self-made female billionaire after Kalshi, the prediction platform she founded alongside Tarek Mansour, soared to a valuation of $11 billion. Behind the impressive figures stands an extraordinary personal trajectory that began on the stages of Bolshoi in Rio and ended at the pinnacle of America's fintech industry. Lopes Lara grew up in Brazil and was accepted to the Bolshoi Theater School there, …
With his company Kalshi amassed a fortune greater than 10 billion dollars in a few years
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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