Check out Lucy Guo, born October 14, 1994, in Cali, a Chinese-American entrepreneur and coding whiz.

Growin’ up in Fremont with engineer parents, she taught herself to code young and banked cash makin’ bots for online games as a teen. She started at Carnegie Mellon for comp sci and human-computer stuff but bounced in 2014 after snagbin’ the Thiel Fellowship.

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At 21, in 2016, she co-started Scale AI with Alexandr Wang, peacin’ out in 2018 but keepin’ a stake worth over $1.2 billion later. She then kicked off Backend Capital, a fund for early startups, and in 2022 launched Passes, a creator platform pitched as a chill, family-safe rival to OnlyFans. By 2024, Passes pulled in about $40 million in Series A cash. As of 2025, Guo’s the youngest self-made female billionaire in the U.S., with a net worth around $1.3 billion. In 2025, Passes got hit with a class-action lawsuit over supposed moderation drama, which Guo’s publicly clappin’ back against.