This native Bay Area comes just as a canceled Taylor Swift as the youngest self -made woman from the world of worldwide billionaires in the world

Fremont, California. – – At the age of 30, the native and artificial intelligence entrepreneur Lucy Guo in a new Forbes Review dethroned the prominent power plant Taylor Swift as the youngest homemade woman in the global billionaire.

From Tuesday, Forbes presented her real-time networks of $ 1.3 billion.

In 2016, Guo was with the San Francisco scale Ki together with Alexandr Wang based in Sale.

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She left the company in 2018, according to reports on disagreements about its direction and its company.

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According to Forbes, however, it has retained a share of AI of almost 5%. Last year, the company had a value of $ 13.8 billion after a round of financing that earned $ 1 billion.

Estimates have now occupied the value of the privately held company up to $ 25 billion because it concludes a potential takeover offer that is expected to be completed next month.

Guo would not comment on whether, according to Forbes, she wanted to sell one of her missions as part of the takeover offer.

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After her departure from the Skala Ai, Guo was a co-founder of a risk capital company Backend Capital before returning to the start-up world.

In 2022 she started passes, a direct-to-fan engagement platform. Similar to websites such as fans and Patreon, Passe offers tools for content manufacturers to monetize their fan base.

“Passes signed business with celebrities such as Gymnast Olivia Dunne, basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal and DJ Kygo,” reported Forbes and found that the company had raised 50 million US dollars from investors over two years from 2022.

In the middle of the recognition that GUO has received for her business and remarkable success, she has recently made headlines because of a lawsuit, in which passes are accused of relieving the distribution of child pornography and the exploitation of minor creators.

The company has refuted the claims and said: “In accordance with his mission, uploading explicit content forbids it and is actively working to identify and remove violations of its guidelines.”

The company described the legal lawsuit as a smear campaign and said: “In order to be clear, every claim that approved or tolerates is categorically incorrectly incorporated the publication of every user, in particular a minor, on his platform.”

Elite group

Forbes listed Guo as one of only six homemade billionaires under the age of 40 worldwide.

She replaces the 35-year-old Taylor Swift as the youngest in this category, an award that the global star and the singer-songwriter have described as a billionaire since Forbes in 2023.

Guo was recognized in 2018 in Forbes '30 under 30 lists.

Bay Area roots

The parents from Fremont are Chinese immigrants who were electrical engineers.

A Passer spokesman announced KTVU that the CEO and co-founder of the company lived in the Bay Area for two decades and is now located in Los Angeles.

Forbes reported that Guo began to bloom at a young age with her interest in computer science and her entrepreneurial skills at a young age.

Guo visited the Foothill High School in Pleasanton, where she left its mark.

A spokesman shared a photo of a touching letter that Guo wrote to a high school teacher.

The letter was partly: “I know that I drove you the crazy year in the second year … Thank you for enduring me. You literally changed my way of thinking about life.”

The letter was saved by the teacher all the years, said the spokesman.

After the explaner, Guo visited the college of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania.

But in 2014 after two years in college, she started to go to Thiel. The two-year program “For young people who want to build new things” was founded by the tech investor Peter Thiel. It offers Thiel Fellows a grant and support of $ 100,000 and support to skip or leave college to start new companies.

At only 30, Guo was described as someone who was at the top of the technology, the AI ​​world and an ambitious and motivated entrepreneur with a rebellious and unapologist approach, without fear of taking the unconventional way.

And in an industry that is dominated by male managers, Guo went beyond the glass ceiling. The young billionaire has reached new heights.

Fremonttechsan FrancisComoney