Scale AI’s 30-year-old billionaire founder still shopping at Shane and stands up to work at Honda Civic: “ACT BROKE, STAY STAY RIN”

• Billionaire College Dropout Luciguo Reportedly, the youngest homemade woman on the planet, kicking Taylor Swift out of the top spot. But even with $1.3 billion reported net worth, the 30-year-old co-founder of Scale AI reports luck She’s still pinching Shane’s penny and shop.

Despite establishing and maintaining $1.3 billion in stake in AI Unicorn, Lucy Guo will not catch her billions in wasting her billions with a gorgeous lifestyle to match her new status.

“I don’t like wasting money,” says the modest 30-year-old. luck.

Of course, Guo sometimes splurges. If you have a 16-hour flight to endure, she says she chooses business class. And there’s the strange designer dress hanging in her closet for when she needs it.

“But like in everyday life, my assistant drives me with a rather old person. Honda Civic. I don’t care,” she says.

“Everything I wear is free or from the scene… Some of them aren’t of that great quality, but there are always two pieces. “I’m still literally buying Buy-One-get-free on Uber Eats.”

Guo, the founder and CEO of Creator Community Platform Pass, now adds that the quote that stumbled on the morning of the interview fully sums up her approach.

Billionaires need to prove themselves

After the AI ​​startup she co-founded, Guo hit the jackpot. It is reportedly It is worth $25 billion in April as part of the stock sales.

She left the company in 2018 (two years after its establishment), but the 5% stake she held is worth an estimated $1.2 billion. Forbes The latest rankings include Rihanna and human co-founder Daniela Amody.

That’s why Guo no longer feels the need to prove her wealth with a Patek Philippe daily watch. Hermes Birkin To carry her laptop. It’s the billionaire behaviour, she says.

“Usually, people who are wasting money, designer clothes, nice cars, they’re technically in the billionaire range,” Guo explains. “All their friends are billionaires or billionaires, and they feel a little uneasy, so they need to be flashy to show others, ‘Look, I’m successful.'”

“I haven’t shown it to anyone, have I?”

Certainly, for our interview, she was dressed down in make-up and managed to pass other millennials. But early in her career, Guo admits that she may have also dripped down the designer’s gear.

“I think this is actually something I’ve experienced personally. I think a lot of people have experienced it when you’ve been successful, but not as successful as you want to be.”

“And I think the reason most billionaires wear t-shirts, jeans and hoodies is that they can do. They don’t have to wear suits 24/7, because they’re proving themselves to the rest of the world. “And I think that’s kind of a feeling I like.

“No one is going to look at me and point me when I stop by the Honda Civic.

“Cheap” CEOs are just relevant, but not Guo

Guo isn’t the only one who admits she’s “pretty simple.” The most powerful in the world boasts about them Quiet luxury Lifestyle for a while. They have worn logoless angora wool jumpers and linen pants that could have a modest look from anywhere. Experts say Their wealthy companions can tell who is wearing Zara from those in Lolo Piana, but the point is that they resemble people in lower tax brackets.

Other people like Keke Palmer And Warren Buffet was not subtle about how they live a very normal life despite their huge net worth.cheap”.

But in Guo’s eyes, she is actually one of the few people as cheap as they say.

“People want to fit in society. Specifically, in America, I think “I hate the billionaire situation.” So people explain, “Look, I’m not your typical billionaire.”

“I’m not saying, ‘Show me a world different from other billionaires,'” adds Goo. “I fully acknowledge that. I went through that spending when I was more worried. I felt I needed to show something.”

And who Really Have you spent millions? They’re not doing it to make it relevant, she says it’s because they had their flashy times like her – and “Why am I wasting money on something that doesn’t matter?”

This story was originally introduced Fortune.com