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After dropping out of Stanford in 2023, Guo built Pika into a $470 million AI video platform with five million users by solving a problem incumbents ignored: existing tools were simply too hard to use.
Demi Guo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pika, an AI video generation platform that allows users to produce and modify AI-generated videos with ease.
Guo dropped out of Stanford in 2023 with co-founder Chenlin Meng to build a more accessible AI video tool, growing Pika to millions of users and a valuation of roughly $1 billion following a Series B round in 2025. Guo was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and is among the most prominent young AI entrepreneurs in the United States, with Pika sitting at the intersection of generative AI and creative tools.
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