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Luana Lopes Lara and Tarek Mansour won a federal case, raised at an $11 billion valuation, and now face the states. The product is mostly sports betting.
Founders
Alexandr Wang built Scale AI on an invisible workforce, became a billionaire at 24, and was hired by Meta at 28. The workers, and the timing, are part of the story.
Founders
Pump.fun's three founders made launching a coin free and instant. The revenue was immediate; so were lawsuits that call the site a casino.
Founders
Roy Lee built a tool to game coding interviews, was suspended, and raised from a16z. Then he retracted his revenue claim and became a note-taker.
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Mercor's founders rented out the world's professionals to AI labs. Then came the lawsuit, the breach, and a revenue line that kept doubling.