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Fortune
Orianna Rosa Royle

Meet Luana Lopes Lara: The 29-year-old ballerina spent college summers working for Ray Dalio—now she’s world's youngest female self-made billionaire

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Following in the footsteps of Taylor Swift and Scale AI’s Lucy Guo, Luana Lopes Lara has just been crowned the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire thanks to her prediction market startup, Kalshi, reaching an $11 billion valuation.

But before Wall Street even knew her name, she was training to be a professional ballerina in Rio, where she endured brutal 13-hour days.

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