Who is Lucy Guo, the woman who has destroyed Taylor Swift as the youngest billionaire in the world for her own merit
For a few months, Taylor Swift no longer holds the title of the youngest multimillionaire woman in her own merit. The pop star, with an estimated fortune in 1.6 billion dollarshas been overcome by a young businesswoman who made her fortune in the world of artificial intelligence and digital platforms: Lucy Guo.
To their 30 yearsGuo has been recognized by Forbes and has displaced the American singer -songwriter in the list of 100 richer women who have built their fortune on their own.
Lucy Guo is an entrepreneur born in California, daughter of Chinese immigrants, who from adolescence demonstrated her passion for technology. He learned to program at high school and later studied Computer Sciences and Human-Computer interaction at the Carnegie Mellon University.
However, He never finished his studies: he abandoned them after being selected for the Scholarship Thiel Fellowshipa program created by the investor Peter Thiel that pays young people to leave the university and melt their own companies.
His first great success came when he co -founded, along with Alexandr Wangthe company Scale ai In 2016. Lucy was just 21 years old.
Wang became CEO and she led the operations and product design teams at the Startup based in San Francisco. In 2018, both were included in the list 30 under 30 of Forbes. However, that same year, the professional relationship broke. According to the magazine, “the co -founders disagreed on how the company should go and Wang fired Guo.”
Despite her departure, the young woman kept a good part of her participation in the company. That decision brought excellent results: Scale ai A sharing repurchase operation just valued in 25 billion dollars. Guo’s participation, estimated at almost 5%, is now worth about 1.2 billion, according to Forbes.
In 2022, after leaving Scale aiLucy Guo founded Passes In 2022, a platform that allows creators and celebrities monetizing their communities through exclusive content, live broadcasts and personalized messages, on the style of Onlyfans or Patreon.
In just two years, Passes raised 50 million dollars in three rounds of investment and was valued at 150 million. Among its users are names such as the gymnast Olivia Dunne, the former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal and the DJ Kygo.
Not everything has been celebration. In March 2025, Passes It was sued for allegedly hosting child abuse content. The company categorically denied the accusations and, before the demand was filed, eliminated all the content of minors and prohibited minor creators on the platform.
A company spokesman assured Forbes that “rejects any statement that approved or allowed the publication of explicit content of minors. Any effort to attribute to Passes or its founder an improper behavior is unfounded and is nothing more than an attempt to unjust them in the demand.”
As for his lifestyle, Guo describes that he is intense and disciplined. Its current heritage: 1.25 billion dollars.
As stated to Fortune In 2023, he has two properties: “An elegant apartment in Miami and a house in Los Angeles five minutes from my office.” He usually goes to work on an electric skateboard or is driven by his assistant, and often lunch on his desk. “I’ve never had a real vacation. Even when I’m on vacation, I work at least eight hours a day,” he confessed.
In addition, he is a fitness fan: he attends Barry’s Bootcamp twice a day, a high intensity gyms chain. In April, he celebrated having completed 3,000 classes and shared it on Instagram with the phrase: “Discipline> Sleep. 3000 CLASSES COMPLETE”
Another hobby is electronic music. Guo usually attends festivals such as Coachella and Ultra Miami. He even dedicated two weeks to learn to be DJ.
In line with his hobbies, Lucy celebrated his 30th birthday with a party called LucyPaloozabut he admitted on Instagram that age generated fears for the social expectations of his culture.
“I have always been afraid of this age. Immigrant Chinese culture instilled in me that I had to have children at 25, and if I was not married at 30, I would be single forever,” he wrote.
However, he was optimistic about his present: “Every year is better. I am more confident, excited and motivated than ever. And since Asians do not age, every year I become richer and more beautiful. ”
