The unstoppable party that has unseated Taylor Swift as the younger billionaire in the world
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Lucy Guo She is not any businesswoman. It moves through Los Angeles on an electric scooter, presumes to train twice a day in one of the most exclusive gyms of the United States, Barry’s Bootcampand organizes parties with thousands of attendees in Coachella. But it is also, from this June, the youngest billionaire in the world made to herself, unseating nothing less than Taylor Swift, who held the title since the late 2023.
From PayPal’s co -founder fellow a pioneer of the AI
With only 30 years, Lucy Guo has built a technological empire that Forbes Value in 1,196 million euros. Daughter of Chinese immigrants and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, learned to program in secondary school and abandoned the Carnegie Mellon University After receiving a scholarship of 92,000 euros financed by Peter Thielentrepreneur, inverter and German-American philanthropist known for being co-founder of Paypal. His meteoric ascent began when co -founding Scale ai In 2016, next to Alexandr Wanga young American businessman of Chinese origin, when she was only 21 years old. The company, dedicated to labeling data to train artificial intelligence models, is valued today at almost 22,000 million euros.
Although he was fired from Scale AI after a disagreement with his partner, Guo retained a 5%participation, today valued at 1.2 billion. And in parallel, he founded Capital Backend And, in 2022, he launched his new project: Passes.
Your most ambitious project: ‘Passes’
Passes is a “family” content platform for creators, which allows influencers and celebrities to connect directly with their fans and keep 90% of their income. The startup has raised 44 million euros and collaborates with names such as Olivia Dunne, Shaquille O’Neal and DJ Kygo. However, it has also been dotted with a demand to house inappropriate content related to minors. Guo and his team have flatly denied the accusations, calling them “unfounded” and trying to extort the company.
A lifestyle that does not go unnoticed
Guo has earned as many followers as critics for his ostentatious lifestyle and without filters. With houses in Miami and Los AngelesDo not cook or buy food: everything asks for Uber Eats. He declares himself addicted to work and at the same time Fan de los Raves Techno. Celebrate your birthday with parties like Lucypalooza, An exclusive annual party organized by herself, collects Pokémon Paraphernalia and says she works eight hours, even on vacation. “Many people do not support me because I look like a moron on the Internet. But I also make good friends, because they appreciate my wild personality,” he confessed to The Post.
From Taylor Swift’s rival to controversial figure in the elite tech
His irruption in the First place in the multimillionaire ranking Self-Made according to Forbes He has displaced Taylor Swift, who, with a heritage of 1,472 million euros, remains the richest musical artist in the world. Guo, on the other hand, represents a new kind of young wealth: uninhibited, digital, hypertecnological and without fear of anything. As she herself wrote when she turned 30: “Every year I am richer and more attractive.”