Lucy Guo Net Worth

What is Lucy Guo's net worth?

Lucy Guo is a Chinese-American computer engineer, entrepreneur, and venture investor who has a net worth of $1.3 billion. Lucy Guo earned her fortune from Scale AI, a data annotation startup she co-founded in 2016. Though she was fired from the company just two years later, she held on to her equity stake, which is now worth nearly $1.2 billion. In 2025, following a secondary tender offer that valued Scale AI at $25 billion, Guo became the youngest self-made female billionaire, surpassing Taylor Swift for the title.

She has since founded and run multiple ventures, including the creator platform Passes and the venture fund Backend Capital. Guo is one of just six self-made women billionaires under 40 and the only one who built her fortune from a company she no longer works for.

Early Life and Education

Lucy Guo was born on October 14, 1994, in Fremont, California, to Chinese immigrant parents who were both electrical engineers. From an early age, she showed entrepreneurial ambition, teaching herself how to code, selling Pokémon cards at school, and creating bots to farm and sell assets in the online game Neopets. She studied computer science and human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University but dropped out during her senior year after receiving a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship, a grant awarded to students who leave school to pursue startups full-time.

Early Career

After leaving Carnegie Mellon, Guo interned at Facebook and later joined Quora as a product designer, where she met Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang. She later became the first female product designer at Snapchat, where she helped develop the Snap Maps feature. In 2016, she and Wang decided to start their own company.

Scale AI

Guo and Wang co-founded Scale AI in 2016 to provide labeled data for training artificial intelligence models. The company initially focused on data for self-driving cars, paying contract workers to tag images and text. Major clients eventually included OpenAI, Meta, and the U.S. government, which used Scale's software to analyze satellite images during the war in Ukraine. Scale also created Remotasks, an internal outsourcing agency for data labeling, which has been criticized for low pay and poor working conditions in Southeast Asia and Africa.

In 2018, Guo was fired from Scale following disagreements over company direction, though she publicly stated she was proud of what the company had accomplished. Despite her departure, she retained an estimated stake of just under 5%, which became massively valuable after a 2025 tender offer valued the company at $25 billion. At the $25 billion valuation, Lucy's 5% stake became worth $1.25 billion on paper.

(Photo by Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty Images for Passes)

Backend Capital and Ramp Investment

After leaving Scale, Guo launched the venture capital firm Backend Capital to invest in early-stage startups. Among the firm's most successful bets was a six-figure investment in the fintech company Ramp in 2020. Ramp later achieved a $13 billion valuation, and all three of its co-founders became billionaires. Guo later shifted her focus away from investing to start new companies of her own.

Apply to Date

Guo launched Apply to Date in the early 2020s as an alternative to traditional dating apps. The service allows users to create shareable dating profile pages that can be posted directly to social media. Guo created it out of frustration with apps like Tinder and Raya, aiming for a more curated and flexible experience.

Passes

In 2022, Guo founded Passes, a platform that allows creators and celebrities to monetize their content through subscriptions, video chats, and exclusive content. Often described as a competitor to OnlyFans and Patreon, Passes quickly attracted notable clients including gymnast Olivia Dunne, Shaquille O'Neal, and DJ Kygo. Between 2022 and 2024, Guo raised $50 million across multiple rounds from investors such as Mary Meeker's Bond Capital, Michael Ovitz, and Menlo Ventures, valuing the company at $150 million. By 2025, the platform boasted more than 1,000 creators and 500,000 users.

Passes has been involved in some controversies. In 2024, the service was reported to have hosted an account featuring a minor selling photos of herself in a bikini. The account was eventually removed, but only after the New York Times requested comment. In 2025, Passes, Guo, and two other employees were sued by creator Alice Rosenblum, who alleged that Passes had possessed and sold pornographic material of her as a child.

Personal Life

After spending several years as a digital nomad, Guo purchased a $6.7 million condo in Miami's One Thousand Museum building in 2020. She developed a reputation for hosting wild parties, culminating in a 2022 gathering of over 100 guests, plus a lemur and a giant snake, which drew complaints from neighbors and her homeowners' association.

In 2024, she bought a $4.2 million modern farmhouse-style home in West Hollywood, featuring five bedrooms, a screening room, a dipping pool, and a rooftop bar. She's an avid fitness enthusiast and has taken over 3,000 classes at Barry's Bootcamp. In April 2025, she posted a photo from the West Hollywood location holding a sign that read "Lucy Hiits 3000!" with the caption "Discipline > Sleep."

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