Kalshi co-founder becomes youngest female billionaire in history > be @luanalopeslara > born in a small town in Brazil > first passion isn't business > it's ballet > enrolled in the Russian Bolshoi school as a kid > the most prestigious and the most brutal > 10 hours a day of training > academic classes on top > living away from home before most kids learn algebra > a decade of this > blood, blisters, perfection > dances the Black Swan in Austria > the peak of classical ballet > very few ever get there > then she pivots > says the Bolshoi discipline becomes her superpower > applies "elite-athlete mentality" to startups > starts Kalshi > builds markets to predict real-world events > everything becomes tradable: elections, economics, weather > grows into the largest prediction market on the planet > the idea is controversial > critics call it "gambling dressed as finance" > supporters call it "truth markets" > she calls it "a new asset class" > Kalshi fights through regulatory fog > survives skepticism > scales anyway > volume surges > institutions quietly plug in > today, Kalshi announces an $11B valuation > Luana becomes the youngest female billionaire in history > 29 years, 171 days > a former ballerina leading a financial revolution > the ballet kid from Brazil > who trained until her feet bled > now rewriting how information is priced > ballerinas aren't supposed to build $11B startups > yet here she stands > job's not done