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Lucy Guo
BornLucy Guo
(1994-10-14) October 14, 1994 (age 30)
Occupationinfluencer
engineer
NationalityAmerican

Lucy Guo is a social media influencer and engineer who co-founded Scale AI in 2016 before being fired in 2018 and, in 2022, founded Passes [d], an OnlyFans competitor.

Early life and education

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Guo was raised in Fremont, California, by Chinese immigrant parents who worked as electrical engineers. She began coding at a young age; as a teenager she taught herself programming and earned money by developing bots for the online game Neopets and selling the in-game assets for profit.[1] Guo enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University where she studied computer science[1] but dropped out in 2014 after being selected for the Thiel Fellowship,[2][3] a two-year $100,000 grant for young people to pursue entrepreneurial projects instead of completing their studies.[1]

Career

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After dropping out of Carnegie Mellon, Guo interned at Facebook before joining Snapchat as the company's first female designer.[4] At Snapchat, she helped develop Snap Maps.[5] She then moved to Quora where she met Alexandr Wang.[6] They co-founded Scale AI in 2016, but she was fired two years later in 2018.[7]

In 2018, she launched an app called Apply to Date allowing users to create a dating resume.[8]

In 2022 she founded Passes, an OnlyFans competitor using connections from parties she attended.[9][10][11] It raised a $40 million Series A in 2024.[12]

Passes was reported in 2024 to have allowed an account featuring a 12-year-old selling bikini photos after she had been banned by another platform. The account was removed only after the New York Times requested comment.[13]

In 2025, Passes and Guo were sued by another creator who stated that they had distributed child sexual abuse material of her before she turned 18.[14][15][11]

Personal life

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She was "living as a digital nomad" for a number of years before buying a $6.7 million apartment in 2020 in Miami where her parties caused conflict with neighbors.[16][17] She was described by the New York Post in 2022 as Miami's number one party girl.[18][6]

In 2024, she purchased another $4.2 million home in West Hollywood.[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Muppidi, Sri (August 23, 2024). "Lucy Guo's second act: After the 29-year-old left Scale AI, she has the 'itch to build' something new". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
  2. ^ Thier, Jane. "Multimillionaire Lucy Guo's only regret: Investing in 'every startup that's gone to zero'". Fortune Europe. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  3. ^ Bowman, Wendy (2024-09-20). "A 29-Year-Old Tech Tycoon Snaps Up a $4.2 Million Designer Abode in L.A." Robb Report. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  4. ^ NA, NA (June 20, 2022). "Who is Lucy Guo, second richest self-made woman under 40 after Kylie Jenner?". South China Morning Post. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  5. ^ Powers, Jacquelynn (2022-05-21). "How Lucy Guo conquered tech and became Miami's No. 1 party girl". New York Post. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  6. ^ a b Megía, Carlos (2022-06-10). "Alexandr Wang is the new youngest self-made billionaire". EL PAÍS English. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  7. ^ Weinberg, Cory (June 28, 2024). "Fame, Feud and Fortune: Inside Billionaire Alexandr Wang's Relentless Rise in Silicon Valley". The Information. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  8. ^ Thompson, Rachel (2018-03-16). "You can now create a shareable dating resume so anyone can apply to date you". Mashable. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  9. ^ Martin, Iain. "How Underage Creators Threatened Lucy Guo's OnlyFans Rival Passes". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  10. ^ "Miami startup founded by Thiel Fellow Lucy Guo raises $9 million". Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  11. ^ a b "Passes: the $9.5M/year softcore OnlyFans growing 1166% year-over-year". sacra.com. 2024-03-01. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  12. ^ Jones, Rachyl. "Exclusive: 29-year-old self-made millionaire Lucy Guo follows up her unicorn Scale AI with a $40 million Series A for new creator economy venture, Passes". Fortune. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  13. ^ Valentino-DeVries, Jennifer; Keller, Michael H. (2024-11-10). "She Was a Child Instagram Influencer. Her Fans Were Grown Men". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
  14. ^ Silberling, Amanda (2025-03-03). "Creator monetization platform Passes sued over alleged distribution of CSAM". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  15. ^ "Influencer Sues Social Media Platform Passes for Allegedly Exploiting Her as a Minor". People. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  16. ^ DeLuca, Alex. "Tech Bros, Exotic Animals: HOA Pissed After Silicon Valley Transplant's Wild Party". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  17. ^ Staff, T. R. D. (2022-02-09). "Party poopers? Techie Lucy Guo's wild jamboree at One Thousand Museum riles condo association". The Real Deal. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  18. ^ Powers, Jacquelynn (2022-05-21). "How Lucy Guo conquered tech and became Miami's No. 1 party girl". The New York Post. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  19. ^ Bowman, Wendy (2024-09-20). "A 29-Year-Old Tech Tycoon Snaps Up a $4.2 Million Designer Abode in L.A." Robb Report. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
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