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Lucy Guo Tops Forbes as Youngest Self-Made Female Billionaire; Passes Faces Child Pornography Lawsuit

Passes is defending a class-action suit alleging that the creator platform hosted underage sexual content.

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Overview

  • Forbes values Guo’s net worth at $1.3 billion after Scale AI’s latest tender offer pegged the company at $25 billion.
  • Guo co-founded Scale AI in 2016, left in 2018 and still holds approximately a 5 percent stake now worth about $1.2 billion.
  • She dropped out of Carnegie Mellon University with a $100,000 Peter Thiel scholarship and previously worked at Quora and Snapchat.
  • Passes has raised over $50 million since its 2022 launch as a creator community platform but is now the target of a February class-action suit.
  • In April, Guo’s lawyers moved to dismiss the suit as a defamatory “deep pockets” grab, and the platform has since banned underage creators and removed disputed content.