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Luana Lopes Lara and Kalshi
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- 0:00She trained at the Bolshoi Ballet
- 0:01School. [music] At 29, she became the
- 0:04youngest self-made woman billionaire in
- 0:06the world.
- 0:07>> [music]
- 0:07>> Luana Lopes Lara grew up in Brazil. She
- 0:10danced professionally in Austria, then
- 0:12left ballet for MIT to study computer
- 0:14[music] science.
- 0:15Summers at Bridgewater and Citadel.
- 0:17Then, with her classmate Tarek Mansour,
- 0:20an idea. A market [music] where you
- 0:22trade on the outcome of real events. Not
- 0:24a betting site, a regulated exchange. It
- 0:27took years of fighting regulators,
- 0:28including lawsuit against them, [music]
- 0:30to list election contracts in America.
- 0:32They won.
- 0:33In December 2025, [music]
- 0:35Kalshi raised money at an $11 billion
- 0:38valuation, and Forbes put her [music]
- 0:40net worth at $1.3 billion.
- 0:42From point shoes to prediction markets.
- 0:45>> Follow Vibe Economics for more.
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