Lucy Guo better than Taylor Swift. Achieved the status of a billionaire at the age of only 30
Scale AI is a provider of data labeling services for artificial intelligence models, which today supports both the US and OpenAI government. The company is valued at $ 25 billion, i.e. by 80 percent. more than a year ago.
Guo, which the co -founder and current CEO of Alexandr Wang released in 2018 as a result of the dispute over the direction of the company's development, however, he retained most of its shares. Today they are valued at a small fortune: $ 1.25 billion.
The Guo Road shows how early programming learning – it began to code in junior high school – and courage to give up studying at Carnegie Mellon and accept the scholarship of the billionaire Peter Thiel, they can speed up his career.
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Lucy Guo with the status of a billionaire faster than Taylor Swift
Lucy Guo met Alexander Wang when she worked in a quer. This is an online platform for questions and answers, to which users from around the world can ask questions and share knowledge and experience, answering to others. The service, launched in 2010, combines social media elements with content moderation – we will find expert or personal prospects for almost every topic.
While working in a quor, she made friends with Wang, and then started Scale AI together, at 21 and 19, respectively. After leaving Scale, Guo invested in RAMP (American fintech, which provides companies with corporate cards and software that automates expenditure control and accounting) through its own Backend Capital Fund, and 2022 moved to Miami to create a passes – a monetization platform for content creators, cooperating, among others with Olivia Dunne and Shaquille O'Neal. Three financing rounds gave a passes a valuation of $ 150 million.although the company has already dealt with the first lawsuit regarding content moderation.
Guo is an experienced programmer, but he largely owes her property to the fact that she was the founder of the AI start-up, who quickly increased his quote. It also had a big impact on its property status that He turns in the circles of millionaires and billionaires from the USA.
The combination with other icons of women's business emphasizes the scale of Guo's feat. Taylor Swift crossed the billion threshold only at the age of 35 thanks to the spectacular influence from the Eras route and the values of his music catalog, which makes her the first artist, whose property in the vast majority comes only from music. Her American assets are estimated today at around $ 1.6 billion.
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Another young billionaire from the world of AI
Daniel Amodea, co -founder of Anthropic and co -author of the AI generative model called Claude, achieved the status of a billionaire aged 37. What ensured such success? Private financing rounds have raised a valuation of the company and its package of shares to approx. $ 1.2 billion.
Amodei and Guo built large estates, developing AI. An equally successful way to become a billionaire is the music industry and show business. Amodea peer, Rihanna, she is also 37 years oldand its $ 1.4 billion It comes mostly from shares in Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty, supplemented with music income. Rihanna built a huge recognition and a personal brand on music to later transform it into business and sell her own products to fans.
There is also in the exclusive group of billionaires before forty Australian Melanie Perkins, 37 -year -old co -founder of Canvywhich 18 The package is valued at $ 5.7-5.8 billion. Canva is also a technology company.
Although the paths of these women differ, they are connected by several common denominators. Each of them was able to identify a rapidly growing market – whether it was generative AI, streaming and concerts, social -commerce or cloud software – and gain an ownership position in it. All consistently reinvested in their brands, protected key property rights and showed immunity, returning stronger after releases, conflicts or lawsuits.
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Can this success be repeated?
The story of Guo and its peers suggest several directions. Firstly, It is worth gaining hard competences as soon as possible – from programming to musical production – because they give a negotiating advantage in the division of shares.
Secondly, it is required to maintain a significant ownership package, even if it means giving up immediate cash.
Thirdly, a network of investor and mentor-party relations, built even at universities or in start-up accelerators, It often turns out to be more important than a formal diploma.
Fourth, flexibility in choosing the industry and readiness for pivot. Guo moved from the labeling of data to the platform for content creators – this shows that with the appropriate hard competences, we are able to respond to market trends and flexibly approach business development.
And finally – the personal discipline, which Guo documents, for example, with the number of completed trainings, helps to meet the marathon of work, negotiations and crises that invariably accompany great ambitions. Lucy Guo showed that even when the company has been left, a well -calculated patience can transform “shares on paper” into a real billion dollars. Her example shifts the limits of imagination for the next generation of women in technology and more.
Even at the age of thirty, you can become a billionaire – if (and until) you have shares in a rapidly growing business.
Author: Grzegorz Kubera, Business Insider Polska journalist
