Lucy Guo, his 30 yearshas redefined the concept of success Millennial After being considered the youngest billionaire on the planet by the magazine Forbes. His fortune, estimated in 1,250 million dollarsit is my own merit, no inheritance or social status.
The young woman, Daughter of Chinese immigrants They worked as electrical engineers, was born in the Californian city of Fremont in 1994 and, from a small, began to show an insatiable curiosity for technology.
He learned to program in primary school and when he was a teenager, he already created video game bots such as Neopets, which reported his first income. The career began Informatics at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Universityalthough it did not finish it.
Left studies after being Scholarship by multimillionaire investor Peter Thielwhich finances entrepreneurial university students to believe their own businesses.
The key to success
After leaving the university, she worked as a product designer on two social networks, the Question and Quora answers company and in Snapchat. In the first one it was where he met Alexandr Wangwith whom he decided to set up a startup in 2016.
Lucy and Alexandr’s twenty -year -old Scale AI co -foundedcompany specialized in the Artificial Intelligence Systems Training Almost a decade before the AI ’climbed like the foam’ and was in vogue.
The business quickly became a reference in the sector, having as highlighted clients Goal, OpenAI and the US Department of Defensewhich made their co -founders appear on the Forbes list in 2018 as children under 30.
Guo ran the operations and product design equipment and he was the CEO; However, in that same year their paths separated. She left the project, conserving 5% of the participationwhich is around 1.2 billion dollars.
Alexandr Wang co -founder of Scale AI.
His entrepreneur’s soul has not stopped creating. After leaving Scale Ai He founded capital backenda risk capital firm that invests in technological startups and Passesa platform that launched in 2022 and allows content creators monetizing their work.
Thanks to this last company, has raised more than $ 50 million of financing And he has signed agreements with celebrities such as the Gimnasta Olivia Dunne, the Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal and DJ Kygo.
Breaking stereotypes
It spends many hours working and she defines herself as WORLKAHOLICbut always find time to train. Every day he goes religiously to the Barry’s Bootcamp gyms and even publishes his training in social networks.
It is active with its internet content and has reached more than 100,000 followers on Instagram And almost 80,000 in X, where he shares reflections on technology, entrepreneurship and lifestyle.
Far from what it may seem, it does not lead a life of luxuries. It moves in electric scooter By San Francisco, he drives a sling and buys frequently in clothing stores Low Cost Like Shein.
It is one in love with electronic music and enjoy festivals such as Coachella or Ultra Music Festival in Miami.
