Fremont AI Entrepreneur Becomes Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire

- The majority of her net worth comes from her retained stake of just under 5% in her first company, Scale AI, which is valued at $25 billion. - Scale AI provides data labeling and annotation services to train artificial intelligence systems for clients like the U.S. military and OpenAI. The company utilizes a "human-in-the-loop" approach, combining machine learning with a large human workforce for data accuracy. - Before co-founding Scale AI at 21, she interned at Facebook, and worked as a product designer at Quora and was the first female product designer at Snapchat. - In 2014, she dropped out of Carnegie Mellon's computer science program to accept the Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 grant for young entrepreneurs to build businesses. - Her current venture, Passes, is a monetization platform for creators that is positioned as a "safe-for-work" alternative to other creator platforms and prohibits nudity. The platform offers features like anti-screenshot technology and has attracted creators like Olivia Dunne and Shaquille O'Neal. - Passes has raised over $50 million in funding from investors including Bond Capital, Craft Ventures, and notable individuals like Paris Hilton and the founders of SKIMS. - She also founded the venture capital firm Backend Capital in 2019, which invests in early-stage engineering startups and has made a significant early investment in the fintech company Ramp, now valued at $13 billion. - Raised in Fremont by Chinese immigrant parents who were electrical engineers, she taught herself to code in middle school and was earning five-figure revenues from internet marketing in high school.