Lucy Guo on Why Founders Need Delusion, Not Certainty

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff · Jul 16, 2026 · 37m

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.

This isn't a conversation about startup tactics. It's about the identity required to keep…