{"id":194926,"date":"2025-10-13T10:47:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=194926"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:22:55","slug":"who-is-the-worlds-youngest-self-made-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/194926\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the world’s youngest self-made billionaire?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At 27, Shayne Coplan has become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. His estimated 11% stake in Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction platform he founded in 2020, is now worth at least $1 billion, Forbes<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

New York Stock Exchange parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, announced it poured $2 billion into the firm at a $9 billion valuation—in exchange for a 20% stake.<\/p>\n

The deal caps a meteoric ascent for Polymarket, which was valued at just $1.2 billion earlier this year and has quietly become crypto’s fastest-growing startup.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 27, Shayne Coplan has become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. His estimated 11% stake in Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction platform he founded in 2020, is now worth at least $1 billion, Forbes writes. New York Stock Exchange parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, announced it poured $2 billion into the firm at a $9 billion valuation—in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":194909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194931,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194926\/revisions\/194931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}