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Lucy Goo, founder and CEO of Passes.
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Lucy Goo may be a billionaire, but instead of a life of luxury and comfort, she swears in a relentless working ethics and a strict daily routine.
At only 30 years old, the entrepreneur born in California has achieved what many will spend their lives in pursuit. In April, Guo’s net value grew to $ 1.3 billion after her first business, scale AI, finished a deal with a technological giant Meta This rated the company at $ 25 billion. She was baptized The youngest independent woman billionaireA title held before by pop star Taylor Swift.
“Honestly, I still feel the same as that girl, as my life before money and post-pairs, that hasn’t really changed that much,” Goo told CNBC to do it in an interview.
Guo is a co -founded scale AI, AI data labeling company, along with Alexander Wang In 2016, Guo, who headed the products for products and product design teams in the launch of the Silicon Valley, left the company in 2018.
“We had disagreements about products and sales,” Goo explained. “Where Alex was very focused on sales, attracting more customers, I was very focused on ‘hey, we have to prioritize the products or help us make sure that the scales (employees) are paid on time, their hours are counted properly, but this is not where the resources are poured.”
However, Guo stays for his share, which costs just under 5%. When Meta agreed to acquire 49% of AI on a scale, the deal pushed the Guo bet to an increasing $ 1.25 billion.
“I think most people could have a balance between professional and privacy if they cut what most people waste their time when they return home.”
Lucy Goo
Founder and CEO of Passes
A serial entrepreneur and graduate of the Thiel Fellowship program, Goo was not out of the game for long and founded Backend Capital, a risk capital company investing in technological startup companies at an early stage in 2019. Its last Party Company, is a content of 2022. For the content monetization, founded in 2022. $ 65 million in fundingS
Since becoming a billionaire, Guo has not removed his foot from the pedal of work. “I still work very long working days,” she said.
“I have more hours a day”
Guo belongs to the founders category who optimize their days to be as productive as possible, and its new billionaire status is not an excuse to slow down.
The middle day for Guo involves waking up at 5:30 in the morning and going to Barry’s bootcamp for two training sessions from back. Lots are a luxury for the founder of the starter and she often eats during meetings, as her schedule does not always allow rest, she said.
“I think most people could have a balance between professional and privacy if they cut what most people waste their time when they return home, which is that many people are congratulating the family of Tiktok, many people just sit and watch pointless television,” she said.
In the interest of the balance between professional and privacy, Guo gives herself a day off during the weekends, where from noon to 6:00 pm she is fully focused on spending her time with her friends, and then returns to work immediately after.
“I think I have more hours a day because I will be honest, I’m completely blessed. I don’t need so much sleep … Although I work these long hours, I feel like I have a balance between professional and privacy.
“I could theoretically work until midnight and then I could go out to the club until 2 o’clock in the morning, and then I could sleep, then wake up at 6am and do Barry.”
Lucy Goo was present as Passes presents Lucypalooza 2024 during La Tech Week on October 16, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.
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The young founder embodies the Silicone Valley Mantra of Work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, similar to Chinese scandalous 996 working culturewhich includes work from 9am to 9pm six days a week.
“9:00 to 21:00, for me, this is still a balance between professional and privacy,” Guo commented. “At 9:00 pm you can go to dinner with your friends. You can invite them to Potluk. You don’t have to sleep from nine to nine. It’s a ridiculous amount of sleep.”
“If anyone thinks this is not a balance between professional and privacy, I do not know what to say, because you literally have from 9:00 to 2am to hang with your friends, and then sleep from 2 to nine. It’s seven hours of sleep, which is more than enough.”
But not everyone agrees with the pursuit of a 996 work schedule. Some founders had previously reached out to the trend, telling CNBC that the views were outdated and unnecessary to succeed.
The culture always reduces the retention and creates a rotating talent door, Sarah Werner, co -founder of Husmus, told CNBC. “
Suranga Chandratilake, a general partner at Balderton Capital, added that 996 is for “fatigue fetishization, not for intelligent work … This is a myth.”
The new founders should work 90-hour weeks
Kate Goodlad and Lucy Guo talk on stage during the 2050 View Discussion At SXSW London on June 2, 2025 in London, England.
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Working hours of startup founders are a very contested question. Recently, some risky capitalists even encouraged European founders Strengthe the pace of work Keep up with their colleagues in the US and China.
“Overall, when you first start your company, it is almost impossible to do it without doing so (996), as if you will have to work as a 90-hour work weeks to get things out of the ground,” Goo said.
As a company grows, hires more talents and finds stability, Goo says it is possible to work later.
She noted that turning a billionaire was not intensive. If you consistently invest hundreds of thousands in S&P 500It can grow to billions for the rest of your life, according to GUO.
“I don’t think you have to work these hours to become a billionaire, by yourself how you decide to do so. If you decide to start a technology company, you will work in these hours at the beginning. If you are like, the main method does it by investing, you will not work in those hours,” she said.
Guo’s last startup, Passes, got into a dispute in February after a Class action has been filed against her and the company, claiming that she has spread materials for sexual abuse over children on the platform of payment of subscribers.
“I think this is a total shock. I have never met this person, I have never talked to this person,” Goo told the trial.
A gap spokesman told CNBC to do it by email: “As explained in the dismissal proposal filed on April 28, Da Guo and submit a categorically rejected harmless accusations against them in the court case, which was filed against them after rejecting the payment of $ 15 million.”
Clark Smith Vilazor, a New York -based judicial firm, who filed the case against gaps, has not yet responded to CNBC’s request for comment.
