Lucy Guo net worth: Inside the fortune of the ‘self-made’ tech star
Published on: Sept. 4, 2025, 10:03 a.m. | Source: Times of India
At just 30 years old, Lucy Guo is officially the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire. That title even knocked Taylor Swift off her perch, at least on paper.Her journey is wild. Lucy grew up in Fremont, California, the daughter of Chinese immigrant engineers. By second grade, she was flipping Pokémon cards and colored pencils like a mini entrepreneur, even sneaking PayPal access to stash her earnings online. Fast forward to her teens, she coded bots for Neopets and sold virtual assets for real dwolla.Then came college... at Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in computer science. But she nixed the degree when she scored the Thiel Fellowship, a $100K grant to chase her ideas full-time.
