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Lucy Guo

CEO & Founder, Moment

Search every verified Lucy Guo interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Lucy Guo, co-founder of Scale AI and one of the youngest self-made female billionaires, has recently discussed her career trajectory and current ventures in several podcast appearances. She stated that Scale AI was valued at $26 billion when 49% of the company was sold, and she described leaving the company after two years due to arguments with her co-founder. Guo said she is currently building multiple new companies, including an infrastructure startup for the creator economy, a fintech app, and an AI growth startup, and she noted that she has flexibility to focus on several ventures by hiring CEOs for some of them. In her interviews, Guo shared views on entrepreneurship and success, saying that being "delusional" is necessary for founders and that execution matters more than ideas. She argued that college is no longer needed for a degree but remains valuable for building a network. Guo also discussed AI's impact on business, stating that tools like Replit and Cursor allow people to build applications without coding knowledge, though she cautioned that "vibe coding" is not sufficient for scaling to large user bases. She attributed her risk tolerance to ignoring her parents' advice to pursue stable careers and said that billionaires find happiness through experiences rather than materialistic pursuits.

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“I think it's definitely a real opportunity. Like it's not a bubble in a sense that like obviously starting a like $5,000 a month business is very different than starting a billion dollar company, but it really has lowered the barrier of entry. Like we've talked about how you know like now marketing people can bring their ideas to life, but because every single employee can be like a 10x employee now and like yes, som”

“You could put that 50 million into a private stock company like Anthropic where you know within like a 5 year time span it's probably going to like 3x and then you're paying very very little interest on this 50 million, and then when it 3xes you not only get to write off the interest, but you get the profits.”

“So what a lot of people do, I could then take out a loan against my shares and then I would be able to take out a loan at a very cheap price and then be able to make money off of that and never pay taxes and then as those assets grow continue to take out loans.”

“I learned leverage much later — I want to teach that to my kids, my daughter especially: take really big swings and levered bets very early and very big.”

“I discovered PayPal really early on and basically bought a Visa debit card from Home Depot, made a PayPal account and then just started making bots to hack the game.”

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