Within the intense daily routine of the billionaire of the 30 -year -old billionaire, Lucy Guo

Lucy Guo is perhaps a billionaire, but instead of a luxury and comfort life, she swears by an incessant work ethics and a strict daily routine.

At just 30 years old, the entrepreneur born in California and breeding achieved what many will spend their lives to continue. In April, Guo’s net value climbed $ 1.3 billion after its first company, Scale IA, concluded an agreement with the Meta technological giant which estimated the company at 25 billion dollars. She was appointed the youngest self -taught billionaire woman, a title previously held by the pop star Taylor Swift.

“Honestly, I always feel the same as this little girl, like my pre-money and post-money life, it hasn’t really changed,” Guo told CNBC to do in an interview.

Guo co -founded the AI ​​scale, an AI data labeling company, alongside Alexander Wang in 2016. Guo, who led the operations and product design teams to the Silicon Valley startup, left the company in 2018.

“We had disagreements around products and sales,” said Guo. “Where Alex was very focused on sales to bring more customers, I was very concentrated on” hey, we must prioritize the products or help ensure that the evolution (employees) are paid in time, their hours are counted properly, but it was not that the resources were paid. “”

However, Guo has kept his participation, which is worth a little less than 5%. When Meta agreed to acquire 49% of AI on a scale, the agreement pushed Guo’s participation in a socking of $ 1.25 billion.

Serial entrepreneur and a graduate of the Thiel Fellowship program, Guo was not out of the game for a long time and founded Backend Capital, a venture capital company investing in technological startups in the start-up phase in 2019.

Since having become a billionaire, Guo has not removed the foot of the work pedal. “I always work for very long working days,” she said.

Guo belongs to a category of founders who optimize their days to be as productive as possible, and his new billionaire status is not an excuse to slow down.

An average day for Guo includes alarm clock at 5:30 am and go to Barry bootcamp for two consecutive training sessions. Lunches are a luxury for the founder of the startup, and she often eats during meetings because her schedule does not always allow a break, she said.

“I think most people could have a balance between professional and private life if they cut what most people waste their time when they get home, that is to say that many people scroll through Tiktok, many people sit down and watch television,” she said.

In the interest of the balance between professional and private life, Guo gives himself a day off on weekends, where from noon to 6 p.m., she concentrates completely on time with her friends, then it’s back to work just after.

“I think I have more hours a day because I’m going to be honest, I’m totally blessed. I don’t need a lot of sleep … Even if I work these long hours, I feel like I have a balance between professional and private life.

“I could theoretically work until midnight, then I could go to the club until 2 am, then I could fall asleep, then wake up at 6 am and make Barry.”

The young founder embodies the Mantra of Silicon Valley to work 24 hours a week, seven days a week, similar to the infamous work culture 996, which includes work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week.

“9 a.m. to 9 p.m., for me, it’s always a balance between professional and private life,” said Guo. “At 9 pm, you can dine with your friends. You can invite them to a meal-show. You don’t need to sleep from nine to new. It’s a ridiculous sleep.”

“If someone thinks that it is not a balance between professional and private life, I do not know what to say because you have literally from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. to spend time with your friends, then sleep from 2 a.m. to nine o’clock. It’s seven hours of sleep, which is more than enough.”

But not everyone agrees with the continuation of a work schedule 996. Some founders previously pushed the trend, telling CNBC that the views are obsolete and unnecessary to succeed.

A culture still decreases retention and creates a rotating talent door, said Sarah Wernér, co-founder of Husmus, told CNBC. “”

SURANGA CHATRATILLAKE, general partner of Balderton Capital, added that 996 concerns “a fetishization of overwork rather than intelligent work … It is a myth”.

The hours of work of the startup founders are a highly contested problem. Recently, some venture capital even pushed the European founders to intensify the pace of work to follow their counterparts in the United States and China.

“In general, when you start your business for the first time, it is almost impossible to do it without doing it (996), as you should work as 90 -hour work weeks to take things back,” said Guo.

As a business develops, hires more talents and finds stability, Guo says that it is possible to work less later.

She noted that becoming a billionaire does not concern intense working hours. If you regularly invest hundreds of thousands in the S&P 500, it could move to billions by the end of your life, according to Guo.

“I don’t think you need to work on these hours to become a billionaire in itself.

The latest startup of Guo, passes, was involved in the controversy in February after a collective appeal against it and the company, alleging that it had distributed children of sexual abuse on the platform to pay the subscribers.

“I think it’s a total shakedown. I have never met this person, I never talked to this person,” Guo said about the trial.

A spokesperson for the Phasse-Passer said to CNBC by email: “As explained in the request for rejection filed on April 28, Ms. Guo and the Phasse categorically rejected the baseless allegations against them in the trial, which was only filed against them after having rejected a payment request of $ 15 million.”

Clark Smith Villazor, the Litigation Cabinet based in New York which brought a lawsuit against the Phasse, has not yet responded to the request for CNBC comments.