The youngest self-made woman billionaire is no longer Taylor Swift
- Portugal Business News
- 4 days ago
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Billionaire news - The youngest self-made woman billionaire is no longer Taylor Swift.
While Taylor Swift is a self-made woman billionaire worth $1.6 billion at only 35, she no longer holds the crown of the youngest self-made woman billionaire in 2025.
Who is the youngest self-made woman billionaire in 2025?
The youngest self-made woman billionaire in 2025 is Lucy Guo, who is worth $1.25 billion at just 30 years old, according to Forbes.
Lucy Guo is a tech entrepreneur who co-founded Scale AI at only 21 years old with Alexander Wang. In 2025, Lucy Guo owns nearly 5% stake in Scale AI that is valued at $25 billion.
The youngest self-made woman billionaire is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area where she began programming while still in elementary school. She was developing bots and trading assets for online games before she even entered college.
In 2014, Lucy Guo chose to stop her computer science degree at Carnegie Mellon to join the Thiel Fellowship that was offering a program awarding $100,000 to promising young people to drop out of college and pursue entrepreneurial projects.
In 2022, Lucy Guo founded Passes, a platform that helps content creators monetize their work, and she also leads Backend Capital, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups. In 2024, Passes raised $40 million in a Series A funding round.
At only 30 years old, Lucy Guo's rise to the status of youngest self-made woman billionaire symbolizes a new generation of billionaires, closing the gender and age gap dividing the new and the older generation of billionaires.
