Lucy Guo, the world's youngest self-made billionaire, attributes her early entrepreneurial spirit to her frugal upbringing. Despite her parents' emphasis on academics, she dropped out of Carnegie Mellon to pursue the Thiel Fellowship. Guo's childhood hustles, from selling Pokémon cards to creating online gaming tools, laid the foundation for her success with companies like Scale AI and Passes.
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Lucy Guo, the world's youngest self-made billionaire, attributes her early entrepreneurial spirit to her frugal upbringing. Despite her parents' emphasis on academics, she dropped out of Carnegie Mellon to pursue the Thiel Fellowship. Guo's childhood hustles, from selling Pokémon cards to creating online gaming tools, laid the foundation for her success with companies like Scale AI and Passes.