Scale AI’s 30-year-old billionaire founder still shops at Shein and pulls up to work in a Honda Civic: ‘Act broke, stay rich,’ Lucy Guo says

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Scale AI’s 30-year-old billionaire founder still shops at Shein and pulls up to work in a Honda Civic: ‘Act broke, stay rich,’ Lucy Guo says

fortune.com/2025/06/08/youngest-self-made-billionaire-on-the-planet-still-shops-at-shein-and-pulls-up-to-work-in-a-honda-civic-act-broke-stay-rich-lucy-guo-says

Billionaire college dropout Lucy Guo is reportedly the youngest self-made woman on the planet—knocking Taylor Swift off the top spot. But even with a $1.3 billion reported net worth, the 30-year-old cofounder of Scale AI tells Fortune she still pinches the pennies and shops at…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-06-08 09:00:00.