From coding Neopets bots as a teenager to becoming the world's youngest self-made female billionaire, Lucy Guo's story reads like Silicon Valley fiction. Co-founder of $13B AI giant Scale AI, she was fired from her own company in 2018 but kept her equity stake. Now worth $1.3 billion, she drives a Honda Civic and shops at Shein while building Passes, her OnlyFans competitor.

But 2025 brought a crushing blow. A class-action lawsuit alleges her platform distributed child exploitation material, threatening everything she's built. This deep dive explores how a brilliant coder became tech's most polarizing figure, the content moderation crisis destroying creator platforms, and whether Guo can survive her biggest challenge yet.

Discover the untold story behind Scale AI's mysterious co-founder drama, the "act broke stay rich" philosophy that defines her business strategy, and why female founders face impossible standards in Silicon Valley's boys club.

Keywords: Lucy Guo, Scale AI, youngest female billionaire, Passes platform, Silicon Valley controversy, creator economy, AI startup founder, content moderation lawsuit

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