Forbes StaffHer firm, Passes, a platform for creators hawking makeup tutorials, relationship advice and more, raised $40 million in February from investors including Emma Grede (No. 87). Most of her fortune lies in her nearly 6% stake of artificial intelligence firm Scale AI, which she cofounded with Alexandr Wang in 2016. (She left in 2018.) Scale AI was worth an estimated $7.3 billion as Forbes went to press but is raising new funding from private investors at a nearly $13 billion valuation.
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