From Carnegie Mellon dropout to Thiel Fellow: Lucy Guo’s path to becoming world's youngest self-made woman billionaire
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Phong Ngo  September 10, 2025 | 12:01 am PT
Lucy Guo, 30, left Carnegie Mellon after realizing she learned more at hackathons, later winning Peter Thiel’s $100,000 fellowship before cofounding multibillion-dollar Scale AI, Forbes reported.