World’s youngest self-made female billionaire is a 30-year-old college dropout, beat Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Rihanna

A 30-year-old skateboarding college dropout is the new youngest self-made female billionaire, pipping Taylor Swift to the second spot.

Published on: Jun 5, 2025, 10:07:48 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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For years, pop icon Taylor Swift has been the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. She reached the billionaire mark in 2023 at the age of 33and has held the record since then. But now, she has been unseated, and not by someone from the entertainment world. The new record-holder is a 30-year-old college dropout known as much for her self-confessed workaholism as for her hard-partying lifestyle. (Also read: World's richest influencer is a billionaire; donates all earnings, still richer than Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Shah Rukh)

Singer Taylor Swift is no longer the world's youngest female self-made billionaire. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File) (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

The world's youngest self-made billionaire

AI founder Lucy Guo has become the world's youngest self-made female billionaire at the age of 30. Forbes’ list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, released on Wednesday, puts Lucy with a net worth of $1.3 billion. This happened after ScaleAI, the firm she co-founded with Alexandr Wang at the age of 21, has been valued at $25 billion in a new deal.

According to the New York Post, Lucy is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she quickly picked up coding in middle school. She dropped out of Carnegie Mellon University as she clinched a $100,000 entrepreneurial scholarship bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel. She was fired from ScaleAI after disagreements with her co-founder, but has kept her 5% stake in the company, which has now made her a billionaire.

Lucy Guo has a net worth of $1. billion, according to Forbes.

Other young female billionaires

Taylor Swift is one of the youngest female billionaires in the world. According to Forbes, the 35-year-old has a net worth of $1.6 billion as of June 2025. Barbadian musician Rihanna, 37, is also a billionaire with a net worth of $1 billion.

Kylie Jenner's billionaire status was revoked by Forbes. Elsa/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by ELSA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (Getty Images via AFP)

Selena Gomez was reported to be a billionaire in September 2024. This would have made her the youngest self-made female billionaire at 32. But Forbes later revised her net worth to $700 million. Earlier, Forbes had called Kylie Jenner the youngest self-made billionaire when she reported breached the $1-billion mark in 2020 at the age of 2020. But like Selena, her billionaire status was revoked, too, given the financial irregularities with her businesses. Kylie has a reported net worth of $700 million now.

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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