Lucy Guo

Some Lesser Known Facts About Lucy Guo

• She was raised frugally by Chinese immigrant parents who were electrical engineers but lost their jobs early in her life, she only saw tech as a fast track to wealth at first.

• Her interest in technology started at a young age, even before most of her peers could grasp the basics of coding.

• When Guo was in second grade when she began learning code. As a teenager she started creating bots for online games like Neopets, which she used to sell in-game assets for a profit.

• She began coding in middle school and went on to study computer science and human-computer interaction.

• In 2014, she dropped out of college after being selected for the Thiel Fellowship, which is a two-year $100,000 grant for young people to pursue entrepreneurial projects instead of completing their studies.

• Guo interned at Facebook before joining Snapchat as the company’s first female designer.

• Guo built her career around tech startups, her initial draw to the industry was a practical one.

• Lucy Guo helped develop Snap Maps. She later moved to Quora where she met Alexandr Wang.

• In 2016, Lucy Guo co-founded Scale AI alongside Alexandr Wang, a company aimed at providing high-quality training data for AI applications. Although, she was fired two years later in 2018.

• In 2018, Guo launched an app called Apply to Date allowing users to create a dating resume.

• In 2020, she bought a $6.7 million apartment in Miami where her parties caused conflict with neighbors.

• In 2022, Guo founded Passes, which is an OnlyFans competitor using connections from parties she attended. It raised a $40 million Series A in 2024.

• In 2022, she was described as Miami’s number one party girl by the New York Post.

• In 2024, Passes was reported for allowing an account of a 12-year-old girl selling bikini photos after being banned by another platform. The account was removed only after the New York Times requested comment.

• In 2024, she purchased another $4.2 million home in West Hollywood.

• Wang became CEO and Guo ran the operations and product design teams at the San Francisco startup. The cofounders both made Forbes’ Under 30 list in 2018.

• In 2025, Passes and Guo were sued by another creator who stated that they had distributed sexually abusive material of her when she was a child.

• According to Forbes, as of 2025 Guo is the youngest self-made female billionaire, due to her stake in Scale AI.

• She is an avid animal lover. She has pet cats.

• She is a fitness enthusiast.