Taylor Swift is no longer the youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world thanks to Lucy Guo, who has officially taken the title in Forbes’ 10th Anniversary list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women.
Lucy, 30, is the founder and CEO of Passes, a platform where creators can build a community and directly connect with their fans, offering them things like live streams, one-on-one messaging, and exclusive podcasts.
Founded in 2022, the company managed to raise an eye-watering $50 million from investors from over just two years, and its owner is sitting pretty with a cool net worth of $1.3billion.
But who is Taylor’s dethroner, Lucy Guo?
Los Angeles-based Lucy is a college dropout, having quit her degree in computer science and human-computer interactions at Carnegie Mellon University.
Before launching Passes, she co-founded the artificial intelligence company Scale AI with Alexander Wang in 2016.
Lucy left the business two years later in 2018 holding onto much of her stake, and that same year she made the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list.
Shedding light into her bougie life, Lucy shared that she has two properties in her portfolio: one in Los Angeles, California and one in Miami, Florida.
Lucy Guo is officially the youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world
The CEO and founder dethroned Taylor Swift from the title in Forbes 2025
‘I have a swanky apartment in Miami and a house in LA which is five minutes away from my office,’ she told Fortune in 2023.
She also revealed her she commutes to the office ‘on an electric skateboard or my assistant drives me.’
Lucy is always so swamped with work that she often eats her lunch at her desk.
She doesn’t buy groceries either, having previously admitted to the publication that she never cook and lives off Uber Eats instead.
While Lucy does enjoy some downtime, extended time off from her company is not ever on the cards.
‘I’ve never really had a real vacation,’ she told Fortune. ‘Even when I’m on vacation I’m working at least eight hours per day.’
Outside of work, Lucy is a fitness fanatic and can often be found keeping fit at Barry’s Bootcamp, a boutique, high-intensity workout class which she attends twice a day.
In April, she celebrated reaching a mind-blowing 3000 classes and credited her ‘discipline’ over prioritizing sleep as the secret to her achievement.
Lucy is the founder and CEO of Passes, a platform where creators can build a community and directly connect with their fans
Outside of work, Lucy is a fitness fanatic and can often be found keeping fit at Barry’s Bootcamp
When she’s not being put through her paces in the Red Room, Lucy is enjoying music festivals and techno raves.
She recently attended this year’s Coachella Festival, which took place in April, and also spent two weeks learning to DJ.
Lucy turned 30 in October and threw a huge party, which she called Lucypalooza, to celebrate.
In a candid post shared on Instagram at the time, she did however admit feeling fearful of the milestone because she is not yet married with children.
‘I’ve always been so scared of this age,’ she penned.
‘Immigrant Chinese culture instilled in me that I should have kids by 25 and if I weren’t married by 30, I would be single forever.
The entrepreneur turned 30 in October and admitted feeling fearful of the milestone
Lucy commutes to the office on an electric skateboard when she isn’t being driven in by her assistant
Lucy, who previously made Forbes’ 30 under 30 list, has two properties in her portfolio
‘But every single year keeps getting better. I’m more confident, excited, and motivated than ever before. I have the best friends that anyone could ask for.
‘I couldn’t be more grateful for the amount of love I have in my life.
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Forbes has today unveiled its 10th Anniversary List of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, ranking the country’s 100 wealthiest women who have built their own fortunes across industries from manufacturing to tech, entertainment, and finance.
Diane Hendricks, cofounder of the ABC Supply tops the list as the country’s richest self-made woman for the eighth consecutive year with a real time net worth of $22.3 billion.
Meanwhile, Oprah Winfrey is 13th on the list with an impressive net worth of $3.1 billion, followed by Kim Kardashian who is 19th on the list with $1.7billion
Country superstar Taylor, 35, ranks at 21st with her net worth of $1.6 billion.