Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan’s social media went silent in the aftermath of a dawn raid on his Manhattan penthouse late in 2024. The 20-something CEO is said to frequently holler at his employees, and occasionally shows up to company Zoom calls shirtless. At first, “a lot of people wouldn’t invest because they thought Shayne was nuts,” Polymarket investor Samir Vasavada told the WSJ. Per the WSJ, Coplan envisions a Polymarket with billions of users, one where anonymous bookies inform government policy and become the go-to source to fact check information. “We still have a long way to go.”More on Polymarket: The Venezuela Polymarket Scandal Is Looking Really Bad