Lucy Guo logs onto Zoom exactly on time. Not early. Not late. Precision matters when your calendar belongs to one of the world’s busiest entrepreneurs. The interview begins at 6 pm London time, 10 am in Los Angeles, where Guo lives and works, and she arrives on the screen smiling, already mid-stride in another packed day.
There is, however, room for chaos. Her two cats, Chili and Sega, woke her earlier than planned. “One was pooping very heavily. It was like a little robot going and going, so my room smelled,’” she says, laughing. The robot analogy feels oddly appropriate for someone who made her fortune in artificial intelligence.
