The co -founder of Scale Ai unbalance Taylor Swift as the ‘self Millionaire’ youngest in the world

The artificial intelligence company Scale AI is finishing a public acquisition offer that allows the first employees and investors of the private company, founded nine years ago, selling shares to new or recurrent investors. The agreement, which according to a source “will continue as long as it does not collapse” and that is expected to be completed on June 1, values ​​the company of AI in 25,000 million dollars, according to several people familiar with the offer. This is an increase of 80 % since last May, when it raised $ 1,000 million, reaching an assessment of 13 800 million.

The new assessment makes Lucy Guo, 30, co -founder of Scale AI, the youngest billionaire on the planet. Guo unbalance Pop star Taylor Swift, 35, who held that title since Forbes He declared it billionaire at the end of 2023.

Guo, who abandoned his computer studies, co -founded the artificial intelligence company Scale AI in 2016, when he was 21 years old, along with Alexandr Wang, who then had 19. Wang became CEO and Guo led the operations and product design teams in the San Francisco startup. Both co -founders appeared on the list of minors than 30 from Forbes in 2018. That same year, they disagreed on the management of the company and, as reported, Wang dismissed Guo. “We had a difference of opinion, but I am proud of what Scale Ai has achieved,” Guo said.

After leaving Scale AI, cunning retained most of his participation in the company while he was dedicated to his next startup. Guo still has an estimated participation of just under 5% of Scale AI, with a value close to 1200 million dollars; He has not commented if he will sell part of his participation as part of the public acquisition offer. If we add to this his other assets, including his participation in his second startup, pass, Forbes He estimates that his assets amounts to 1250 million dollars. “I do not give much importance, it is a bit crazy. What a pity that everything is on paper, haha,” says Guo by text message in response to his new multimillionaire condition.

The increase in the value of Scale also raises the fortune of the youngest billionaire, its executive director Alexandr Wang, about 3.6 billion dollars, compared to the previous 2,000 million. A Scale Ai spokesman declined to comment.

Guo is one of the six multimillion -dollar women of the planet under 40 who made their fortune for themselves. He is also the only one who did most of his fortune in a company he left years ago.

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Daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, Guo grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and began programming at high school. He studied computer-person-computer interactions at the Carnegie Mellon University, but abandoned his studies before graduating to become a Thiel fellow, a program sponsored by the billionaire investor Peter Thiel who finances entrepreneurial university students to create companies. In 2015, Guo got a job as a product designer at the Question and Quora Answer Company, where he met Wang. He left Quora and briefly worked on Snapchat in product design before she and Wang decided to co -found Scale AI in 2016.

The company essentially performs what Wang has called the work of “Picos y Palas”: label the necessary data to boost the AI. Scale began paying low wages to hired workers who labeled the necessary images to train AI for autonomous vehicles. The United States government (Scale technology has been used to analyze satellite images in Ukraine) and Openai, to help in Chatgpt training, were included among its clients.

After leaving Scale, Guo founded a small venture capital firm called Backend Capital to invest in companies in the initial phase. One of its best investments was a six -digit bet in 2020 for the Financial Software Ramp firm, a company that is now valued at $ 13,000 million (its three co -founders are now billionaires).

Then, in 2022, he stopped focusing on the venture capital firm to found their own business, Passes, similar to Patreon and Onlyfans, a platform for creators and celebrities to connect with their fans, who pay for chats and online videos. Passes signed agreements with celebrities such as the Gymnast Olivia Dunne, the Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal and DJ Kygo. Guo raised 50 million dollars in three rounds between 2022 and 2024 of investors such as Bond Capital of Mary Meeker, the talent agent Michael Ovitz and Menlo Ventures, which the company valued at 150 million dollars.

Last month, Passes was sued for hosting child sexual aggression (MASI). As reported Forbes In March, just before demand, Passes prohibited all minor creators and eliminated their site content. A spokesman for Passes declared To Forbes Last week that «rejects any statement that approved or conded the publication of explicit content for minors on its platform. Any attempt to attribute to Passes an alleged misconduct of third parties lacks foundation and is nothing more than an attempt to involve Passes and its founder, Lucy Guo, in demand.

In addition to spending long hours at work, Guo is religious with his daily training in the Barry’s Bootcamp gyms chain. In early April, he published on Instagram “Discipline> Dream. 3000 completed classes” under a photo of her in Barry’s in West Hollywood with a poster that said “Lucy Hits 3000!”. His other favorite thing to publish: photos of music festivals such as Coachella and the recent Ultra Music Festival in Miami. It is a work and fun mixture that never ends. Last weekend, Passes organized a great party related to the Coachella Music Festival, which began on Friday, April 11. Guo said by text message from Los Angeles, where he now lives, “literally thousands of assistance confirmations.”

Additional information from Iain Martin

This article was originally published by Forbes Us.

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