“You can just create a startup out of like, nothing,” Guo said, reflecting on her early days hacking and competing in coding challenges during college.
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Guo, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, dropped out of Carnegie Mellon University after receiving the Thiel Fellowship, which awards $200,000 to young entrepreneurs who skip or leave college to build businesses.
“They stopped talking to me for a while,” Guo said of her parents’ reaction. “They were like, ‘You don’t appreciate all the sacrifices we did for you.’”
Despite their early disappointment, her decision to pursue tech entrepreneurship has since led to a family reconciliation and a spot among the wealthiest young innovators.
With that hefty valuation Lucy Guo’s co-founder, Alexander Wang became the youngest self-made billionaire in 2021 at the age of 24.
