Lucy Guo

Lucy Guo is a trailblazing entrepreneur and AI leader, widely hired as a keynote speaker for her first-hand experience building and scaling frontier technology companies. Best known as the CEO of Passes, a platform enabling creators to monetise their brands through paid content, Lucy sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital platforms and the creator economy. Her influence across the world of AI innovation has established her as one of the most compelling young voices shaping the future of AI-driven business, as well as being named one of the youngest female self-made billionaires on earth, a title once held by Taylor Swift.

Raised by Chinese immigrant engineers, Lucy demonstrated exceptional technical aptitude from an early age. She taught herself to code as a child, building bots for online games and selling digital assets for profit, gaining an early understanding of scalable systems and online marketplaces. She went on to found Miscellany Business, an internet marketing venture, and later served as CEO of Science for Youth, delivering educational seminars to students across multiple cities. Her early professional career included engineering and product roles at high-profile technology companies such as Facebook, Quora and Snapchat, where she refined her understanding of data, growth and platform economics.

Lucy co-founded Scale AI, a company that became foundational to the AI ecosystem by providing training data infrastructure for machine learning systems. Her stake in Scale AI later made her one of the youngest female self-made billionaires in the world, highlighting both her technical insight and strategic foresight. Alongside this, she founded Backend Capital, where she serves as General Partner, backing early stage engineering led start ups.  She founded and has been the CEO of Passes since 2022. Her achievements have been recognised with multiple Hackathon Awards, the Thiel Fellowship, inclusion in Forbes 30 Under 30, and recognition in the LA500 by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

As an AI speaker, Lucy Guo brings unmatched credibility and relevance. She speaks from lived experience about building AI infrastructure, scaling technology platforms and navigating the ethical and commercial realities of artificial intelligence. Her keynotes combine technical fluency with entrepreneurial clarity, making complex AI concepts accessible and actionable for business leaders. With a career spanning engineering, venture capital and executive leadership, Lucy equips audiences with the insight and confidence to innovate responsibly, compete effectively and lead in an AI-driven world.