The Youngest Self-Made Female Billionaire on Money, Success, and AI | Lucy Guo
Post Run High
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1.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What if becoming wildly successful didn’t feel the way you thought it would?
Lucy Guo became the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world — but what she learned about money, ambition, and identity might surprise you. As a co-founder of Scale AI she (an AI unicorn) she shares her thoughts on AI and how to best prepare yourself for what is coming.
In this episode, we talk about what it actually takes to build something at the highest level, why money doesn’t solve the problems you think it will, and how your environment, network, and willingness to take risks shape everything.
Lucy shares the realities behind building billion-dollar companies, the pressure that comes with success, and why some of the most important decisions have nothing to do with intelligence — and everything to do with how you think.
If you’ve ever felt behind, questioned your path, or wondered what it really takes to “make it,” this episode will change how you see success.
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| 0:00.0 | The dumbest people can make a lot of money if you have a good network. You can have a billion dollars in net worth but have zero dollars in a bank account. It was just a number on paper. It could go to zero at any point in time. Lucy Duol is a billionaire entrepreneur and scale AI co-founder. She shares unfiltered views on AI, wealth, ambition, and the trade-offs behind success. Everybody wants to be a billionaire, but is there a side that people don't think about? It becomes a lot more lonely. It's harder to trust new people nowadays, and that makes sense. You and your friends were at the forefront of what a lot of people are calling the AI revolution. I'm curious, like, what do you guys argue about? It's probably like 50-50 on AGI happening and I just don't think we're even |
| 0:39.0 | close to getting there. LOMs are not human intelligence. It takes data and it summarizes it |
| 0:44.2 | and it kind of predicts the next word. When people say that they're scared AI is going to take |
| 0:49.4 | their jobs, what do you say to them? Yes, if you're like an entry level engineer, AI, it's probably going to |
| 0:54.5 | replace you. The ones that learn how to supplement that are going to be extremely successful. |
| 1:01.0 | Hi guys, Kate here. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. Lucy Guo is a founder, |
| 1:06.6 | investor, and one of the youngest self-made women in tech. If you've been enjoying post-rent high, please be sure to follow the show wherever you're listening, and we will be right |
| 1:14.9 | back with our conversation after this short break. |
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