The world welcomed yet another Gen Z billionaire in October after the valuation of American cryptocurrency prediction platform Polymarket soared to £6.7 billion ($9bn), catapulting its founder, Shayne Coplan, straight into the global one per cent.
At just 27, Coplan has now overtaken China's Alexandr Wang, 28, to become the world's youngest self-made billionaire. But his rise was anything but ordinary. His entrepreneurial journey began in the most unlikely of places, the tiny bathroom of his Lower East Side apartment in New York, where he worked during the pandemic because it was the only spot quiet enough to focus.
