Taylor ‘SWIFTLY’ Dethroned as World’s Youngest Self-Made Female Billionaire by Hard Working College Dropout

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Taylor Swift has lost her top spot, according to a Forbes’ list.

I’d like to say it was all because she backed the wrong ticket last November, but there’s really no evidence to that effect.

But I’m sure the millions she reportedly lost after endorsing Kamala Harris didn’t help her standing!

Up until April, Swift was the youngest female Billionaire in world who didn’t inherit her fortune, but actually brought in the money herself.

Now, an early AI business co-founder 5 years younger than Taylor has unseated the popstar.

Lucy Guo rides an electric skateboard, is known to workout obsessively, and has recently stirred up controversy with one of her newest ventures.

At 30, Lucy Guo is now the youngest self-made woman billionaire, surpassing Taylor Swift. She co-founded the AI company Scale AI and has an estimated net worth of $1.25 billion, according to Forbes. pic.twitter.com/SKNTiuL8Eq

— Complex (@Complex) May 3, 2025

And quite honestly, I find her a LOT more interesting than Taylor Swift.

Though she doesn’t describe herself that way.

In her mind, she’s a stick-in-the-mud that works, sleeps, hangs out with her cat, and rides her electric skateboard to the gym multiple times a day.

She does have a strange connection to one polarizing figure currently taking some heat from the MAGA movement.

Before she DROPPED OUT, she was a student at Carnegie Mellon University on a scholarship paid for by none other than Peter Thiel, according to a recent writeup by the New York Post:

Lucy Guo — a self-professed workaholic who rides an electric skateboard to work when she’s not being chauffeured by an assistant — has a net worth of $1.3 billion, according to Forbes’ list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women released on Wednesday.

Guo took Swift’s title of world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire in April, when it was reported that Scale AI — the firm she co-founded with Alexandr Wang in 2016 when she was just 21 and he was 19 — had been valued at $25 billion in a deal set to close by June 1.

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Guo was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she quickly picked up coding in middle school. She dropped out of Carnegie Mellon University as she clinched a $100,000 entrepreneurial scholarship bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel.

She took a job in 2015 at Quora, where she met Wang, and later worked at Snapchat for a brief period as the company’s first female designer.

At Scale AI, Guo ran the operations and production design teams – until Wang, who took the chief executive position, reportedly fired her after the two sparred over how the company should be run.

“We had a difference of opinion but I am proud of what Scale AI has accomplished,” Guo told the tech news site The Information last year.

Still, Guo kept most of her 5% stake in Scale AI, which is worth approximately $1.2 billion, according to Forbes. The firm labels data used by tech giants like OpenAI and Alphabet to train their chatbots.

Guo’s politics aren’t exactly in line with Peter Thiel’s, who has recently been labeled as one of the key drivers of the Trump Administration’s unexpected push for what would amount to a national identification database.

That push, and the Trump Administration’s apparent willingness to institute it, hasn’t gone over well, as Newsweek has reported:

Supporters of President Donald Trump expressed anger and disbelief online following reports that his administration had advanced plans to create a national citizen database with technology firm Palantir.

The White House has contracted Palantir, a Colorado-based analytics company co-founded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, to assist in compiling a database of personal information on American citizens, according to unnamed government officials and Palantir employees who spoke with The New York Times. The purported deal follows project talks Palantir had with the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Education.

The reaction from Trump’s supporters reflected growing unease within conservative circles, indicating a rare rupture between the president and key segments of his constituency. The controversy underscores nationwide anxieties around privacy, civil liberties, and the growing influence of technology firms over personal information management.

That’s interesting, considering Guo went to school on Thiel’s dime.

I’m very curious to know if there’s still a connection there, but if there is I haven’t been able to find it.

Meanwhile, Guo’s approach to life likely doesn’t allow her a lot of time to take in the fact that she’s unseated Taylor Swift on the Forbes list.

Here’s a quick video put out by the Daily Mail that gives a quick overview of Lucy Guo:

Lucy Guo dethrones Taylor Swift as youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world. pic.twitter.com/lInsN6Eqi0

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) June 4, 2025

She says she orders her meals, works during vacations, and when she’s not working… she works some more!

But she swears she’ll never live anywhere that doesn’t have a specific gym nearby:

My beige flag is that I won't ever move anywhere that's more than a 10 min electric skateboard ride to Barry's pic.twitter.com/a6Q5KUxx3V

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) November 18, 2024

Her outspoken tendencies online have given her a tough-girl reputation.

Here’s how she responds to her haters:

It’s easy to attack the character of someone you don’t know when it’s difficult to attack anything else in their lives

Cheers to all my haters, y’all make me more confident bc to be gossiped about means my life is going really well

pic.twitter.com/Ff6ANQpqGS

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) January 13, 2023

I definitely don’t align perfectly with Guo’s lifestyle or worldview, but she does drop an occasional wise word or two!

Check out her take on how to save money, and resist the need to SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!:

Dumbest thing I've ever done is leave money in my bank account.

Too easy to spend on stupid stuff.

I now have almost everything invested.

Cash broke, just enough to pay off CC bills.

Makes me a much more responsible human being

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) November 21, 2024

That’s hard to argue with!

That’s sort of the equivalent to us “regular” folks deciding not to walk around with a load of cash — back when we actually USED cash.

She’s not particularly political, though she’ll often comment on issues.

And if you couldn’t tell… the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire is VERY focused on making money.

Check out this post from the day after last year’s election:

No one cares about rights when the economy is bad.

That’s the #1 issue. LGBTQ+ and abortion rights are #10 issues.

It doesn’t matter if the economy was good or not because of Trump. The general perception is that it was.

And association is all that mattered for Americans to…

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) November 6, 2024

She’s very realistic, and she doesn’t seem to be overly influenced by “hype”.

I can’t help it — I kind of like her. At least, in comparison to Taylor Swift. (Ugh.)

She actually came out denying any allegiance to either the Democrat or Republican parties — and though she made a joke out of it… I think I believe her.

It’s a joke everyone. I avoid after parties!

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) November 7, 2024

She did apparently “bet” on Kamala on Election Day.

And by that, I mean she actually played the odds by betting money on the longshot!

Odds are so crazy I just placed bets on Kamala pic.twitter.com/GmbJi8aUbr

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) November 6, 2024

The funny thing is, she only did it BECAUSE Kamala was the obvious longshot to beat Donald Trump.

Without a doubt, Lucy Guo is a shrewd businesswoman.

She didn’t shy away from dropping this news back on election day, either. Remember when all the influencers starting making fun of the Democrats for trying to buy up support?:

My influencer friend got offered 25k per video to make TikToks promoting a presidential candidate’s policies…

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) November 5, 2024

As most tech-based gurus, she’s not incredibly pro-gun.

Or, at least she wasn’t…

I am never, ever, ever living without a roommate again. Targeted robbery, thank god he chased them out with a gun. pic.twitter.com/5pI2pXLaCE

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) October 31, 2024

I've never been pro gun ownership until now

— Lucy Guo (@lucy_guo) October 31, 2024

One thing is certain — Lucy Guo isn’t dumb.

From the internet stalking I did of her X account, she appears to drop more financial wisdom and work-related tips than the usual mindless nonsense you would expect.

And she’s not afraid to openly take a lesson from reality and change her mind. (As in the targeted burglary attempt that apparently changed her mind on gun ownership.)

She now runs Passes, a platform that started out as family-friendly, according to the New York Post article I referenced earlier:

With “a swanky apartment in Miami” and a house in Los Angeles, Guo has admitted she never buys groceries or cooks, instead ordering all of her meals from Uber Eats.

She says she works at least eight hours a day when on vacation and has boasted about taking two Barry’s bootcamp fitness classes a day. She frequently attends techno raves.

“A lot of people don’t like me because, honestly, I seem like an a–hole online. I would not like me on the internet,” she told The Post in 2022. “But I’ve made a lot of friends because I think people appreciate my savage personality.”

She now runs Passes, a content creation platform that has been dubbed the family-friendly version of OnlyFans and Patreon, claiming to “make millionaires” by allowing creators to hold onto 90% of their earnings.

Passes reaped $40 million last year in a Series A funding round, according to Fortune — allowing Guo to fund her lavish party-girl lifestyle.

In between founding Scale AI and Passes, Guo started a small investment firm known as Backend Capital.

Guo landed at No. 26 on Forbes’ list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, while Swift came in at spot 21.

Passes hasn’t been without it’s issues.

What started out as a family-oriented version of a creator platform has been swamped with claims of underage porn and the like.

I’ve never used — or even heard of — Passes, until now. So I don’t really have any insider scoop on that.

I know there are lawsuits pending, and the incredibly hardworking and rich Lucy Guo has claimed innocence.

A billion dollars can buy a lot of legal expertise, and attract a lot of negative lawsuits all by itself.

At any rate, Taylor has been knocked down a few rungs as far as Forbes is concerned.

I haven’t tried to contact Taylor for a comment on her lost position.

And I don’t plan to.

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