Founder Profile
Lucy Guo
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Lucy Guo?
Lucy Guo is a founder of Scale AI, Inc., which was founded in 2016 with Alexandr Wang.
- Company founded
- Scale AI, Inc.
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Alexandr Wang
Background
Guo studied computer science and human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon before leaving as a Thiel Fellow. She worked at Quora and Snapchat.
Founding Story
Lucy Guo co-founded Scale AI with Alexandr Wang in 2016 and led early product and design work. She left in 2018 and later founded the venture firm Backend Capital and the creator platform Passes.
Lucy Guo was born in 1994.
Guo left Scale AI in 2018. In 2022 she founded Passes, a platform for paid creator content.