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Networth and Chill with Your Rich BFF

AI Billionaire Lucy Guo's Guide to Building Unicorns and Scaling Wealth in Silicon Valley

Networth and Chill with Your Rich BFF

Vivian Tu

News, Business, Careers, Business News, Entrepreneurship

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week on Networth and Chill, Vivian sits down with Lucy Guo, the serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Scale AI, to explore the financial blueprint behind building multiple unicorn companies before age 30. From dropping out of Carnegie Mellon to co-founding Scale AI—now valued at over $13 billion—Lucy's story reveals the strategic decisions and calculated risks that transformed her from a college dropout into one of tech's most influential young billionaires. Vivian explores Lucy's investment philosophy, her strategies for identifying market opportunities in emerging tech sectors, and how she's diversified her wealth beyond Scale AI through ventures like Passes, her social platform for creators.Whether you're interested in AI entrepreneurship, startup scaling strategies, or understanding how to leverage technical skills into generational wealth, this episode offers crucial insights on building in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. Check out Lucy on Instagram and learn more about Passes at https://www.passes.com/ Follow the podcast on Instagram and TikTok! Got a financial question you want answered in a future episode? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think AI is going to continue to enhance people's work. A lot of the more tedious tasks that people are doing, they can no longer do and they can focus on the harder problems. So one example I like to give is lawyers, right? Where like AI is going to help them reduce the amount of time that they're spending, like, reading documents, it'll help them figure out like where the loopholes are in an argument, and then they can work on figuring out a solution. But am I going to be out of a job? Is AI taking my job?

0:26.3

I mean...

0:27.4

What's up, Rich Friends? Welcome back to another episode of Network Thin Chill with me,

0:39.6

your host, Vivian 2, aka Your HBFF, and your favorite Wall Street girly.

0:44.3

Hate it or love it. It's hard to ignore that AI is going to be a part of our future.

0:49.3

Whether it's delivery apps, managing orders more quickly, cars having better safety features or frankly driving

0:54.9

themselves, or even financial institutions monitoring markets faster than ever, AI is here to stay.

1:01.5

And I've only recently gotten into learning about how it can improve my work, but today's guest

1:06.5

is an entrepreneur and mogul who has been in the AI game

1:10.9

for far longer than most of the tech bros you see in the news.

1:14.2

As the founder and CEO of my own business,

1:16.6

I know just how hard it is to get any new venture off the ground.

1:19.9

And I think I've accomplished a lot,

1:21.9

but my special guest puts me to shame.

1:24.1

She's the co-founder of Scale AI, the founder of Passes, and having recently just

1:29.4

passed Taylor Swift, she is now the youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world. Everyone,

1:36.5

please welcome Lucy Gwell. Hi, I'm Lucy, and don't worry, I'm sure your liquid net worth is

1:42.0

still higher than mine. We'll get into that today. But Lucy, before we get into all things, passes, money, entrepreneurship, I have to ask you an icebreaker question.

1:51.7

And this is actually something that I've personally been very curious about because we're friends on social media.

1:56.7

What's the obsession with Barry's boot camp? Sometimes I see you there like four or five times a day.

2:01.7

What's going on? Hi, this is Ava from Vanta. In today's digital world, compliance regulations are changing

2:08.3

constantly. And earning customer trust has never mattered more. Vanta helps companies get compliant

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