There must be something in Uber Eats that’s keeping diners hooked, so they keep ordering and ordering. Including this younger female billionaire.
She is Lucy Guo, who revealed on CNBC how she still keeps hunting for Uber Eats deals, even if her net worth is already $1.3 billion, as of April.
“Honestly, I still feel the same as that little girl, like my life pre-money and post-money, it hasn’t really changed that much,” Guo told CNBC Make It. “I still find deals like I pretty much only order buy-one-get-one-free on Uber Eats.”
Guo lives a simple life even if she’s already wealthy. For instance, she told ridesharing media how she likes skateboarding to work, up to as crazy as booking “fake flights” at the airport and then, canceling them, just so she could dine in for free in the Amex lounge.
“I’m frugal at some things and I spend more on other things,” she continued. “I ride Uber X’s everywhere. I think my friends get really frustrated when I order an Uber X to the club, because they’re like ‘Lucy, what are you doing?’”
She also once stayed at a hotel in Europe, craved currywurst, and tried to get the cheapest price on it.
“In my hotel, it was like 20 euros. On Uber Eats, it was like four euros. So I got it on Uber Eats instead,” she revealed.
For those who don’t know, Guo runs a lot of dealings. She founded and manages Passes, a platform for creators sharing advice and so much more. From 2022 to 2024, the company raised around $50 million from investors.
She also has a startup, Scale AI, which was able to wrap up a deal with Meta – the parent company of Facebook and Instagram – taking the firm’s valuation to $25 billion.
A few years ago, Guo left Scale AI, though she held on to a stake worth under five percent, which has now ballooned to $1.25 billion. Three years ago, she founded Passes.
This lady is not only among the youngest billionaires across the globe, but she also made it to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2018. She has a background in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interactions at Carnegie Mellon University, but dropped out prior to her graduation on her way to her Thiel fellowship.
The Thiel Fellowship, founded by Peter Thiel, is a two-year program that provides $200,000 in funding and mentorship to young people – aged 22 or younger – who choose to drop out of college to pursue ambitious entrepreneurial projects, such as startups, nonprofits, or research ventures.
“When I bought my house, I did spend a lot of money on my house, but did I make sure I got a good deal? Yes, because, from what I heard at least, the developer actually lost money on my house. It went from like, $44 million to $29.5 million, which is a great deal in my head,” she stated.
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