{"id":19815,"date":"2025-10-02T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=19815"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:26:36","slug":"taylor-swift-overtaken-as-the-youngest-self-made-female-billionaire-by-lucy-guo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/taylor-swift-overtaken-as-the-youngest-self-made-female-billionaire-by-lucy-guo\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Overtaken as the Youngest Self-Made Female Billionaire by Lucy Guo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lucy Guo<\/a> is a leading innovator, entrepreneur and influencer, recently named by Forbes as the youngest self-made female billionaire<\/a>, bumping a certain megastar from the top spot. (No, Taylor Swift did not send her a congratulations note.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After dropping out of Carnegie Mellon, Guo co-founded Scale AI (acquired by Meta), and now serves as the founder and CEO of Passes<\/a>, a platform that offers infrastructure to creators to maximize their business and their brand \u2014 everything from AI insights to wealth management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucy joined me on How Success Happens<\/a> to discuss her fearless journey from selling Pok\u00e9mon cards on the playground as a kid to becoming a tech billionaire. She shared why she thinks risk-taking isn’t that<\/em> big of a deal, the value of making yourself the dumbest person in the room, and why, despite her massive bank account, she thinks owning a private jet is a pretty dumb move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch our entire conversation above or listen here, and check out below for Guo’s success tips and insights on the realities of entrepreneurship (i.e., never sleeping.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subscribe to How Success Happens to get a dose of inspiration twice a week! Apple<\/a> | Spotify<\/a> | YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop Freaking Out About Risk-Taking<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guo challenges traditional thinking on risk, sharing, “I think people over-index on the risk. Like they think that things are riskier than they actually are.” Her own decision to drop out of college was grounded in a chance to learn, not fear of failure. “Worst case scenario, you gain a bunch of knowledge and then go back to school. Best case scenario? Life-changing money.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Takeaway:<\/strong> Reframe risks as learning opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surround Yourself With Greatness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guo says success accelerates when you’re “the dumbest person in the room.” And if you’re not the dumbest person in the room, she advises, “find a different room to hang out in.” For her, winning the Thiel Fellowship in 2014 not only gave her a $100,000 grant to work with, but it also connected her to a super-smart and ambitious network that propelled her forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Takeaway:<\/strong> Seek out communities that challenge and stretch your thinking, even if it’s uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rest Isn’t Really Her Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her daily habits are exhausting to even read about. Guo says she thinks she inherited a gene from her parents that doesn’t require her to get much sleep. “I go to bed around 1 a.m. and generally wake up at 5 or 6 in the morning,” she says, making it clear that she doesn’t prescribe this sleep schedule to anyone. And once she’s up, she likes to kick off the work day with back-to-back workout sessions at Barry’s Bootcamp. (If you’ve ever done one Barry’s session, you know how insane that is.) “It keeps me energized all day long,” she says, adding, “As a founder, you can go a little crazy when you’re putting in a bunch of effort into a project and you’re not necessarily seeing the results. But with exercise, the output you get is the input you put in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucy Guo is a leading innovator, entrepreneur and influencer, recently named by Forbes as the youngest self-made female billionaire, bumping a certain megastar from the top spot. (No, Taylor Swift did not send her a congratulations note.) After dropping out of Carnegie Mellon, Guo co-founded Scale AI (acquired by Meta), and now serves as the founder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,25,4,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-international","category-lifestyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-4-e1759393364439.png?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19818,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19815\/revisions\/19818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}