Tech Bro Raided by FBI Becomes Youngest Self

Shayne Coplan, the 27-year-old founder of Polymarket, has been crowned the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Coplan, a New York University dropout, earned the distinction after the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange Inc., invested $2 billion into the platform. Coplan’s billionaire status comes less than a year after the FBI raided his New York City apartment in the aftermath of the 2024 election, which saw Polymarket users bet over $3 billion on the outcome. Regulators suspected that some users in the U.S. were using the site despite a 2022 ban. Coplan launched the prediction market in June 2020 after starting to build it in his apartment’s bathroom. The platform, which allows users to bet on anything from a football game to who will win the Nobel Peace P