From Ballerina to Youngest Self-Made Billionaire: The Extraordinary Journey of Luana Lopes Lara
Meet Luana Lopes Lara, the former Bolshoi ballerina who learned to code at MIT and founded Kalshi. Discover how she became history’s youngest self-made female billionaire. young Brazilian woman transformed pain, precision, and probability into a billion-dollar empire. Startup Stories Author: Jimmey Barnwal | December 8, 2025 | 10 min. read When we imagine the archetype of