The world's youngest billionaire! Meet Lucy Guo, founder of ScaleAI

2025-04-24 20:42:53 / SHOWBIZ ALFA PRESS

The world's youngest billionaire! Meet Lucy Guo, founder of ScaleAI

After Carnegie Mellon, Guo interned at Facebook and later joined Snapchat as the company's first female designer, contributing to the development of Snap Maps. She then worked at Quora, where she met Alexandr Wang with whom she went on to co-found Scale AI in 2016.

Guo left ScaleAI just two years after starting it. Based in San Francisco, Scale AI is now valued at $14 billion, and a new tender offer could take it to $25 billion. Guo still holds about 5% of the company, giving her a stake worth about $1.2 billion.

After her exit from ScaleAI, Guo launched Backend Capital, a venture capital firm that backs talented engineers. But she didn't stay away from construction for long.

In 2022, she founded Passes, a platform designed to empower content creators by giving them tools to monetize their work. The platform quickly gained traction, raising $40 million in a Series A funding round by 2024.

As of April 2025, Guo's estimated net worth is $1.25 billion, making her the world's youngest female billionaire at the age of 30.

 

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