Rank #2701
Lucy Guo
Net worth $1.5B
Artificial intelligence · United States
- Born
- Oct 14, 1994
- Age
- 31
- Source
- Artificial intelligence
- Residence
- Miami, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Drop Out, Carnegie Mellon University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Lucy Guo cofounded data labeling giant Scale AI, and founded and runs creator platform Passes.
- Guo ranked as the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire from April 2025 to December 2025.
- The daughter of electrical engineers who emigrated from China, Guo taught herself to code in elementary school so that she could adopt virtual pets in a game called Neopets.
- She studied computer science and human-computer interactions at Carnegie Mellon University but dropped out before graduating to become a Thiel Fellow.
- Guo launched Scale AI in 2016 but left in 2018 amid a falling out with her cofounder, Alexandr Wang. She still owns roughly 3% of the company, which is the source of most of her fortune.
- In June 2025, Meta bought 49% of Scale AI for about $14 billion and Scale paid its shareholders a hefty dividend.
- She founded Passes, a platform for creators and celebrities to connect with fans that's similar to Patreon and OnlyFans, in 2022; she is CEO and has raised $50 million from investors.