Polymarket, the popular prediction market, has been doing really well lately. In fact, it’s been doing so well that Bloomberg is out with a new story that claims the site’s founder, Shayne Coplan, is officially America’s youngest “self-made billionaire,” a term which is quite confusing.

To review, Coplan’s newfound riches are the result of a recent business deal with the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, who has promised to invest billions in the 27-year-old’s company. As such, Coplan has managed to become Silicon Valley’s latest success story, and he is now worthy of a write-up about his supposedly meritocratic rise to fame and fortune. Indeed, Bloomberg’s story, which includes the typical hagiographical details, charts Coplan’s rise from his modest beginnings in a Manhattan apar

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