Lucy Guo on Why Founders Need Delusion, Not Certainty
Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Lucy Guo on Why Founders Need Delusion, Not Certainty

B1IntermediateJuly 16, 202637 min

What happens when you stop treating failure as something to avoid and start treating it as just information? This week on Superwomen, I sit down with Lucy Guo, founder of Passes and one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires, to unpack the mindset that has shaped every company she's built. Together they explore why confidence often looks like delusion, why happiness can become a competitive advantage, and what Lucy had to become to build companies in one of the toughest industries in the world. ...

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The biggest mistake a founder or CEO can make is just listening and getting reports from their executives because like what if they're not telling the truth? My executive layer was not being entirely truthful about like where things were in their org.

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What I've also learned is that ICs don't lie. Now I have moles in pretty much every single org that really tell me like, hey, this is what's going on. Hey everyone, welcome back to Superwomen.

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I'm in my LA outpost and today's guest is Lucy Groh. She is the world's youngest self-made billionaire, having launched and sold Scale AI. But today, we're not really talking about her career in that. We're talking about how you have to disrupt your team, how you can use AI to free up a lot of your time,

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