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The 30-year-old billionaire who has taken Taylor Swift’s crown
- Lucy Guo, a 30-year-old tech entrepreneur, became the world's youngest self-made female billionaire in April 2025, surpassing Taylor Swift according to Forbes.
- Guo's rise followed her co-founding Scale AI in 2016, leaving the company in 2018 but retaining a 5% stake now worth over $1.2 billion, and launching Passes in 2022.
- Passes, a platform that helps digital creators generate income, secured $40 million during its Series A round in 2024, offering creators as much as 90% of their revenue, but the company faced a class action lawsuit in early 2025 related to alleged safety protocol failures.
- Guo praised Taylor Swift as "the icon" and expressed pride as a Swiftie while denying wrongdoing in the lawsuit, calling it "a defamatory attempt" seeking $15 million in damages.
- Guo's success illustrates a shift in tech entrepreneurship, highlighting greater female representation despite controversy, and she welcomes a future successor to her title as a sign of growing innovation.
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The 30-year-old billionaire who has taken Taylor Swift’s crown
Lucy Guo says her new title “doesn’t really feel like much”.
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Swiftie first, mogul second, says Lucy Guo, who dethrones Taylor Swift as world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire - VnExpress International
AI founder Lucy Guo, 30, said she is a proud fan of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift after overtaking the pop star to become the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire. - VnExpress International
Lucy Guo, a 30-year-old woman from San Francisco, USA, and daughter of Chinese immigrants, has dethroned Taylor Swift this past April as the richest woman in the world, as she is estimated to have a net worth of $1.3 billion. In addition, Guo stands out for having dropped out of her studies, which makes this a surprising fact.Guo became interested in code writing from a fairly young age, and even went to college to follow her education in this m…
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