Lucy Guo

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1,295 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Lucy Guo: The Fastest Way to Build a Business Today (The #1 Strategy That Saves You Months of Wasted Work) · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Like no one thought it would work, but the investors that thought it was work, they went against the grain.

And I think that's when the best decisions are made.

So I was giving up a lot of money.

I wouldn't call it life changing money for me per se, but I think it was life changing money for other people, especially because Snap's vesting schedule at that point was like 10, 20, 30, 40, which is a very unique vesting schedule.

So that meant that I was leaving the majority of my equity on the table.

This goes back to, you are like the average of the people you hang around with.

And because I was in this Teal Fellowship Network and all my peers were founders that had either raised tens of millions of dollars or had built billion dollar companies, I really did believe that I could be one of those people.

I think that being delusional is necessary to be a founder because if you're

Building a venture scalable business, you really have to believe like I'm going to make it.

I'm going to be part of the 0.01% that is actually going to build a unicorn.

I do think that there are other businesses like lifestyle businesses that are much more easier to become successful because you're not shooting for the stars, right?

Like if you're making like less than $100 million a year for venture, that's not great.

But if you're doing that like $10 million a year as an individual, like that can support you for the rest of your life.

If I were 22, I would actually go live on campus at different colleges because I feel like I would be young enough to do so, where I could pass off as a college student.

That's actually how I was able to gain kind of a network outside of just Carnegie Mellon, where...

I had lived on Menlo Avenue at USC and like kind of just hung out at USC as like a student.

I was, you know, in San Francisco and I was hanging out at Stanford as like a student per se.

And when you blend into college community, like you will just start getting invited to things, whether it's like fraternity parties or hackathons, etc.

I would also like definitely continue to go to hackathons because hackathons are great.

It attracts a certain type of student that wants to do something over the weekend that doesn't involve partying, right?

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