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Shayne Coplan and Polymarket
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- 0:00The FBI raided his apartment at dawn. 11
- 0:02months later, the owner of the New York
- 0:04Stock Exchange backed him with $2
- 0:06billion.
- 0:07Shane Copeland [music] dropped out NYU
- 0:09after one semester. In 2020, from the
- 0:11bathroom of his apartment, he started
- 0:13Polymarket, a site where people bet on
- 0:15real-world events, elections, sports,
- 0:18anything. [music]
- 0:19Regulators fined it $1.4 million and
- 0:22made it block American users. [music]
- 0:24Then, in November 2024, federal agents
- 0:27seized his phone and devices. The
- 0:30investigations were later dropped. No
- 0:31charges. [music]
- 0:33In October 2025, Intercontinental
- 0:35Exchange agreed to invest up to $2
- 0:37[music] billion
- 0:38at a valuation of about $8 billion.
- 0:41Bloomberg called him the youngest
- 0:42self-made billionaire in the world.
- 0:44[music] He was 27.
- 0:46Follow Vibeconomy for more.
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