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Polymarket Founder Is Youngest Self-Made Billionaire After Deal With NYSE Owner
Thursday October 9, 2025. 02:45 AM , from Slashdot
![]() It wasn't a smooth road. The company's move-fast, ask-permission-later approach repeatedly ran afoul of regulators, who forced it to ban US-based users for years because it wasn't a registered exchange. A week after the 2024 presidential election -- one that Polymarket users wagered more than $3 billion on -- Coplan's apartment was raided by FBI agents. But he and his company are now riding high after Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said it would invest as much as $2 billion in Polymarket at an $8 billion pre-money valuation. That deal makes its 27-year-old founder the youngest self-made billionaire tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/2033241/polymarket-founder-is-youngest-self-made-billionair...
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