Lucy Guo, nearby founder and CEO.
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Lucy Guo can be a billionaire, but instead of a luxury and comfort life, he swear by a tireless work moral and strict daily routine.
At the age of only 30, California -born and increased entrepreneurs have achieved what many people will spend in chasing their lifetime. In April, Guo’s net value increased by $ 1.3 billion after its first business, Scale AI, Ai wrapped deal With tech legend Meta This gave the company a price of $ 25 billion. He was named The youngest woman billionaireA title that was previously organized by pop star Taylor Swift.
Guo said in an interview by CNBC, “Honestly, I still feel like that little girl, such as my life pre-wealth and post-money, it’s not really so much.”
Guo co-established AI, AI data labeling company, along with Alexander Wang In 2016. Guo, who led the operation and product design teams in the Silicon Valley Startup, left the company in 2018.
“We disagreeed around products and sales,” Guo explained. “Where Alex was very selling-operated to bring more customers, I was focusing a lot like ‘Hey, we need to prefer products or help to ensure that the scale (employees) are paid on time, their hours are being counted correctly, but it was not where resources were being inserted.”
However, Guo captured its stake, which costs less than just 5%. When Meta agreed to acquire a 49% scale AI, the deal touched Guo’s stake in $ 1.25 billion.
“I think most people can create a balance of life if they cut that most people waste their time when they come back home.”
Lucy Guo
Founder and CEO nearby
Graduates of a serial Entrepreneur and Thiel Fellowship Program, Guo were not out of the game for a long time and established the backynd Capital, which in 2019 was established a venture capital firm investing in the initial phase technical startups. His most recent company, pass, a material manufacturer has been established in Mudrikaran Forum 2022, $ 65 million in funding,
Since becoming a billionaire, Guo did not take his leg from the work pedal. “I am still working on very long work days,” she said.
‘I have more hours a day’
The Guo belongs to a category of founders, which optimize their days to be as productive as possible, and its new billionaire position is not an excuse to slow down.
An average for Guo involves waking up at 5:30 am in the day and going to Barry’s bootcamp for two workout sessions. He said that lunch is a luxury for the startup founder, and she often eats during meetings because her schedule does not always allow the break, she said.
“I think most people can create a balance of life if they cut that most people ruin their time when they come back home, which many people scroll on tiktok, many people just sit and watch TV,” he said.
In the interest of work-life balance, Guo gives himself a day off the weekend, where from noon to 6 pm, she focuses completely on spending time with her friends, and then it returns to work directly.
“I think I have more hours a day because I am going to be honest, I am completely blessed. I don’t need so much sleep … Even though I am working for these long time, I think I have a work-life balance.
“I could theoretically work until midnight, and then I could go to the club by 2 pm, and then I could sleep, and then get up at 6 in the morning and wake up like a barry.”
Lucy Guo Passes Pass to Parts nearby, Luusipaluja 2024 during La Tech Week on October 16, 2024 in 2024, Beverly Hills, California.
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The young founder symbolizes the silicon Valley Mantra to do the same work as 24 hours a day, seven days a week, seven days a week. Chinese notorious 996 work cultureWhich includes working from 9 am to 9 am six days a week.
“From 9 am to 9 pm, it is still a balance of life for me,” Guo commented. “At 9 o’clock at night, you can go to dinner with your friends. You can invite them to a potalak. You don’t need to sleep from nine to nine. It is a ridiculous amount of sleep.”
“If someone feels that this is not a balance of life, then I don’t know what to say because you have from 9 am to 2 pm to hang out with your friends, and then you sleep from 2 pm to nine. It’s a seven-hour sleep, which is more than enough.”
But not everyone agrees to discover the 996 work schedule. Some founders first pushed the CNBC back against the trend, saying that ideas to achieve success were old and unnecessary.
One always reduces the retention of culture and forms a rotating door of talent, Sarah Verner, the co-founder of Husmus, told CNBC. ,
Baldarton Capital General Partner Suranga Chandratilak said that 996 “A paganization of overwork rather than smart work … this is a myth.”
New founders need to work 90-hour weeks
Kate Gudlad and Lucy Guo speak on stage during the “The View from 2050” panel discussion in SXSW London in London, England on 02 June 2025.
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Startup founders’ working hours is a very installed issue. Recently, some enterprises were also carrying forward capitalist European founders. Increase work speed To live with their counterparts in America and China.
Guo said, “In general, when you are starting your company for the first time, it is impossible to do it without doing so (996), such as you need to work like a 90-hour work weeks to get out of the ground,” said Guo.
As a company grows, hires greater talent, and finds stability, Guo says that it is possible to do less work later.
He said that becoming a billionaire is not about intensive work hours. If you invest in hundreds of thousands continuously S&P 500According to Guo, it can grow to billions to the end of your lifetime.
“I don’t think you need to work to become those hours to become a billionaire, per per.
Guo’s latest startup, pass, got involved in controversy in February class action lawsuit He was filed against him and the company, alleging that he distributed child sexual abuse materials on the stage to pay to customers.
Guo said about the trial, “I think it is a total shakedown. I have never met this person, never talked to this person.”
A nearby spokesperson said that CNBC made it via email: “As it is reported in the proposal to dismiss the dismissal on April 28, Ms. Guo clearly rejects the baseless allegations against him in the trial, which was filed against them after rejecting the demand for only $ 15 million.”
Clarke Smith Villazor, New York -based Litigation Firm, who came up with a case against Pass, has not yet responded to the CNBC request for remarks.
