Lucy Guo

Guo dropped out of Carnegie Mellon after receiving in 2014 the two-year, $100,000 Thiel Fellowship, which was started by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel. In 2016, she founded data labeling company Scale AI, which earned her a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017. Scale AI became a Silicon Valley unicorn after three years when it reached over $1 billion in value. In 2019, she founded venture capital firm Backend Capital, an early stage fund that invests in “the next billion dollar engineers,” according to its website.