May has been a good and bad month at the same time for Taylor Swift. On the one hand, the singer has received one of the best news of her career: after five years of legal battle, she has recovered the rights of her first albums, which for years belonged to the Ithaca Holdings and Shamrock Holdings companies. The price of this was: 360 million euros.
But just when Swift celebrated this achievement, another name emerged in the economic panorama to snatch a title that proudly held: that of the youngest woman in the list of multimillionaires made to themselves, according to Forbes. The new face of technological entrepreneurship has a name and surname: Lucy Guo.
With only 30 years, Guo has amassed a fortune of 1.3 billion euros Thanks to their participation in two companies that reflect the spirit of the digital era: Scale ai and Passes. The latter is a platform similar to Onlyfans, where content creators can interact with their followers through live broadcasts, podcasts and other formats.
But it was Scale aidedicated to data processing to train artificial intelligence, which marked the great economic leap for Guo. The company exploded in May after a bidding process that allowed employees and investors to sell shares, which raised its value to 13.8 billion euros.
Passionate about the world of technology
Guo, daughter of Chinese immigrants and raised in Californiahe has held on several occasions how his parents did not completely support their interest in engineering. In fact, the young woman decided to abandon her studies in computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University after winning a scholarship for entrepreneurs. His career took off when he worked as a fellow on Facebook, then went through Snapchat – where he helped develop Snap Maps – and later by Quora, where he met his future partner, Alexandr Wang.
Together they founded Scale ai In 2016, just when artificial intelligence began to take global prominence. Although Wang was the initial CEO, Guo currently leads the company. His vision is not limited to technology: in 2018 he created Apply to datea startup focused on improving curriculums.
Beyond the corporate world, Lucy Guo has also given what to talk about her lifestyle. In 2022, the New York Post He was nicknamed “Miami number 1 partying businesswoman” after organizing a party with more than 100 hackers, exotic animals included. That night he ended with his expulsion from the building he shared with David Beckham. Today, he lives in Los Angeles, in a mansion valued in 4.2 million dollars.
