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Lucy Guo

movie Entrepreneur cake 14 October 1994 (Friday) (United States)
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Net Worth

$1.3 billion (2025)

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Height

5' 7" (171 cm)

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Age

30

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Nation

Chinese-American

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Basic Information

Date of Birth: 14 October 1994 (Friday)
Birthplace: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra
Nationality: Chinese-American
Hometown: United States

Family & Relationships

Marital Status: Unmarried

Education

Schools: 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
Colleges: Carnegie Mellon University (Dropped out)

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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.
Lucy Guo with Alexandr Wang
Lucy Guo with Alexandr Wang
  • 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.
Lucy Guo with her pet cat
Lucy Guo with her pet cat
  • She is a fitness enthusiast.
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Lucy Guo’s Instagram post exercising

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