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

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 a $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.

According to a recent Forbes profile, her ballet teachers at Bolshoi Theater School in Brazil held lit...