Taylor Swift No Longer Youngest Self-Made Lady Billionaire

Taylor Swift claimed the title for youngest self-made girl billionaire on the earth in 2023 when Forbes first reported the pop celebrity’s billionaire standing. Two years later, she’s been dethroned by Lucy Guo, the 30-year-old co-founder of Scale AI, Forbes lately reported.

Guo co-founded the San Francisco-based synthetic intelligence firm Scale AI in 2016 when she was 21 years previous, alongside then-19-year-old Alexandr Wang. Wang was CEO, whereas Guo ran the operations and product design groups, and each made Forbes‘ 30 Beneath 30 listing in 2018. However Wang allegedly fired Guo that very same yr once they disagreed on methods to run the corporate.

She nonetheless owns an estimated stake of 5 % of Scale AI, which is now price practically $1.2 billion after Enterprise Insider first reported that the corporate is looking for valuation as excessive as $25 billion in a possible tender supply. Forbes estimates Guo is price $1.25 billion, contemplating her stake in Scale AI and her holding in her second startup, Passes.

Guo is now one in every of solely six self-made girls billionaires on the planet who’re below the age of 40. Out of these six extraordinary girls are two powerhouse artists: Swift, 35, who has a $1.6 billion internet price, and Rihanna, 37, who has a $1.4 billion internet price.

Swift surpassed Rihanna because the world’s richest feminine musician final October. Forbes reported that Swift’s earnings from her worldwide Eras Tour and the worth of her music catalog made her a billionaire, changing into the primary musician to achieve that rank based on her songs and stay efficiency. Her fortune contains $600 million from touring and royalties, $600 million from her catalog and $125 million in actual property holdings.