Other than wealthy heirs and lottery winners, Lucy Guo might just be the luckiest billionaire alive. Co-founded Scale, fired two years later, while valuation was still in the millions.

Even among the incredibly lucky people out there, she's an outlier.

Excluding her internships, she worked two years on something, which later made her financially independent. But really, even by the time she left, she must have been financially independent (by their 2018 valuation).

My point being - she won the lottery ticket, and can work as little or as much as she wants to, without it really affecting her wealth. If she one day burns out, she can take as much time off as she wants to. If she wants to take a 3 month vacation tomorrow, she can do that.

To tell salaried peasants that if they just follow their passion, they can easily pull 12 hour days, 6 days a week...yeah, she seems out of touch.