Passes founder Lucy Guo: ‘I don’t think it’s a bubble’
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For the first time maybe ever, it’s now possible to scale a startup to unicorn status with fewer than 10 employees. So says Lucy Guo, a co-founder of Scale AI, a multibillion-dollar data-labeling company, and the founder and CEO of Passes, a creator economy fan engagement platform.
Last week, Guo joined Alphonzo Terrell—former head of social and editorial at Twitter, and co-founder and CEO of Black-owned social media platform Spill—onstage at the 2025 Inc. 5000 Conference in Phoenix for a panel discussion, moderated by Inc. editor-in-chief Mike Hofman.
The panel examined the ways that new innovations like AI, robotics, and quantum computing are disrupting industries and reshaping the future of business—and the economics of scale.
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