Lucy Guo

Lucy Guo is founder and CEO of Passes and co-founder of Backend Capital, an early-stage technology investment firm.

Career

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Based in: Los Angeles
Elsewhere

Passes

2022 — Present

Founder and CEO

Founded and leads Passes, a subscription and commerce platform for creators.

Backend Capital

Jul 2019 — Present

Founder / General Partner

Scale

2016 — 2018

Co-founder

Co-founded Scale AI, an infrastructure and data platform for artificial-intelligence development.

Snap Inc.

Jan 2015 — Jan 2016

Product Designer

Quora

Jan 2015 — Jan 2015

Product Designer

Facebook

May 2014 — Aug 2014

Software Engineering Intern

Endless

May 2013 — Aug 2013

Software Engineering Intern

Carnegie Mellon University

Computer science and human-computer interactions

Products & media

youtube.com

Startup pivots, early customers, and AI tools

Lucy Guo discusses pivoting Scale AI toward data labeling, finding early customers, and the decisions behind building and funding startups.

Video

podcasts.apple.com

Building Passes and the Creator Economy

Guo discusses creator businesses, platform strategy, fundraising, and the choices behind Passes.

Media appearance

cosign.co

Thiel Fellowship

Member of the 2014 class of Thiel Fellows.

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Lucy Guo

Passes

Backend Capital

Scale

Snap Inc.

Quora

Facebook

Endless

Carnegie Mellon University

Products & media

Startup pivots, early customers, and AI tools

Building Passes and the Creator Economy

Thiel Fellowship

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