Lucy Guo is a 30-year-old self-made billionaire from the United States who has achieved a milestone by becoming the youngest self-made woman billionaire. She has surpassed pop star Taylor Swift in this title. She is the co-founder of the AI startup Scale AI. She also has a connection to India’s OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal. Lucy Guo co-founded Scale AI in 2016 at the age of 21 with Alexander Wang whom she met while working at Quora. Prior to this Lucy has also worked at Snapchat. Scale AI organizes and refines data for machine learning models. The company has big clients like the U.S. government and OpenAI. Scale AI is valued at $25 billion as of June 2024 up from $13.8 billion in May 2023 which is an 80% increase in just one year. The company announced an offer for its former employees and investors to sell some of their shares. Lucy herself left Scale AI in 2018 due to disagreements with Wang over the company’s direction but still has a 5% stake which made her current net worth of $1.25 billion. Connection To Ritesh Agarwal Lucy Guo and Ritesh Agarwal both are recipients of the prestigious Thiel Fellowship a program established by billionaire Peter Thiel. However Lucy Guo dropped out of Carnegie Mellon University to pursue the Thiel Fellowship which provided her with a $100000 grant to work on her entrepreneurial ventures. Ritesh Agarwal also dropped out of college in India and received the same $100000 grant through the Thiel Fellowship in 2013. Ritesh used this funding  for his platform Oravel Stays into the global hotel chain now known as OYO. The Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program designed for young individuals to work on different paths rather than the traditional college education. Participants receive a $100000 grant over two years opportunities to learn from seasoned professionals and access to a network of innovators entrepreneurs investors and researchers.