Archive · 26 Sep 2025
Lucy Guo: From College Dropout to Billionaire
Lucy Guo is now a billionaire at age 30.
She runs a company called Passes.
She studied computer science in college but dropped out before finishing.
She was part of the Thiel Fellowship, which helps young people start businesses.
Her first company was bought by Meta.
Lucy thinks going to college can be helpful for making friends and finding people to work with.
She believes the Thiel Fellowship helped her believe she could build successful companies.
Lucy Guo is the founder of Passes, a platform for content creators.
She is a 30-year-old tech entrepreneur.
Guo was named a self-made billionaire.
She studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Guo dropped out of college to join the Thiel Fellowship.
- Who
- Lucy Guo
- What
- Became a self-made billionaire
- When
- Featured on the Forbes Billionaires List
- Where
- N/A
- Why
- Founded Passes and participated in the Thiel Fellowship
- Name
- Lucy Guo
- Age
- 30
- Net Worth
- $1.25 billion (approx. Rs 1.15 lakh crore)
- Company
- Passes
- Former Company
- Scale AI
- Education
- Studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University; dropped out
- Fellowship
- Thiel Fellowship (2011)
