Lucy Guoa woman of 30 years Native of San Francisco, United States, and daughter of Chinese immigrants, has destroyed this month of April to Taylor Swift as the richest woman in the world, since it is estimated that she has a net worth of 1.3 billion dollars. In addition, Guo stands out for having abandoned your studieswhich makes this fact something surprising.
Guo was interested from quite young in the writing of code, and even went to university to continue his training in this matter, however, the arrival of the $ 100,000 business scholarship Financed by billionaire investor Peter Thiel changed his life, since he would abandon everything for becoming an entrepreneur.
LEAVING YEARS AUG, SCALE AI’S 30-YEAR-OL COFOENDER HAS BECOME THE YOURS Self-MADE WOMAN BILLIONAIRE IN THE WORLD BY HOLDING ONTO HER STAKE IN THE COMPANY. (Photo: Jamel Toppin for forbes) https://t.co/62ntkzbyre pic.twitter.com/bkuzvzc
– Forbes (@forbes) May 3, 2025
How has your fortune achieved?
As previously mentioned, Lucy Guo wrote code from a young age, and it is for this same passion that in 2016, with only 21 yearsfound with your partner, Alexander Wangthe company Scale ai. A business dedicated to training models Artificial intelligencebut at that time there was no fever of this technology as now, so in that year it was not the most lucrative business.
Unfortunately or fortune for Guo, his step in Scale AI was brief, since in less than a year He left the company for his differences with Wangbut he decided to keep most of his participations (which are 5%), and now in 2025, they are paying off, increasing Guo’s fortune at times.
Why is Scale Ai giving money?
Scale ai is giving millions of dollars to Guo because he has collaborated with entities as large as the US government or with OpenAI for the formation of Chatgptand because it is now closing a public offer to repurchase of shares that will allow the first employees and investors to sell, it is estimated that their new assessment reach 25,000 million dollarsaccording to several people familiar with the offer.
This places Guo as one of only six multimillion -dollar women made to themselves under 40 years worldwide, and also with the “achievement” of having accumulated most of their fortune from a company that He left years ago.
At the moment it is not known whether it plans to sell part of its actions or not, but together with its participations in the app that also founded call Passesa “for all audiences” version of Onlyfans, Guo accumulates, according to Forbes around “1.3 billion dollars.”
