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Why the New York Stock Exchange just crowned a Gen Z billionaire: Shayne Coplan figured out a society that gambles on everything
洲际交易所洲际交易所(US:ICE) Fortune·2025-10-11 12:05

Less than 10 years after dropping out of New York University and then starting what would become the prediction market Polymarket in the bathroom of his Lower East Side apartment, Shayne Coplan has been crowned the youngest ever self-made billionaire by capitalizing on Gen Z’s readiness to bet on anything.On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange’s parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, invested 2billioncashinPolymarket,skyrocketingthecompanysvaluationto2 billion cash in Polymarket, skyrocketing the company’s valuation to 9 billion post investment and making CE ...