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My First Million

I built a $50M AI app in high school (and just sold it for...)

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Free course: Build a profitable AI side hustle in 7 days https://clickhubspot.com/dki Episode 802: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to 19-year-old Zach Yadegari ( https://x.com/zach_yadegari ) about selling his $50M/yr app to MyFitnessPal.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) How much? (1:57) getting rejected from Stanford (5:45) 60-second origin story (7:27) "your biggest skill is your audacity" (12:50) the truth about selling a company (23:24) dos and don'ts (27:04) Zach's douchebag arc (29:44) first dumb purchase (33:08) decisions that made the app worth $100M (43:51) Idea 1: Semantic search on IG (45:10) Idea: apps  (48:00) filter for good ideas (54:27) Dinner w/ Steve Cohen (1:03:39) Where Zach is putting his money (1:05:58) What Zach sucks at — Links: • Cal AI - https://www.calai.app/  • MyFitnessPal - https://www.myfitnesspal.com/  — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com  • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

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0:00.0

Zach, we got to set the table.

0:01.7

Zach, how old are you?

0:03.0

I'm 19.

0:24.1

You just sold your company. You just sold your company for how much money, Zach? Yeah. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. On the road, let's travel. All right, what's up? Zach, you're here 19 years old. the last time you called on this podcast, you were in high school.

0:22.6

You, I think, All right, what's up? Zach, you're here 19 years old. The last time you called on this podcast,

0:28.4

you were in high school. I think we're like between third and fourth period or on lunch break and you did a podcast recording with us in front of, I don't know, quarter million people or something

0:32.4

like that. And now we fast forward, I don't know, a year and change later, you just sold your company.

0:38.7

You just sold your company for how much money, Zach?

0:40.5

I can't reveal how much we sold for, unfortunately, but I could tell you that right before selling,

0:46.1

we finished 2025 having done $30 million in revenue.

0:51.2

And now the company's grown in January. We just did $5.7 million in revenue. $5.7 million in revenue. And now the company's grown in January. We just did 5.7 million in revenue.

0:56.7

5.7 million in January. So if you were to multiply by 12 and say, like, what we could do this year,

1:03.1

you're talking about like a 50 million plus revenue company, but 30 million last year. Dude, that's

1:09.0

amazing. Like, you know, just the way you say it, you say it's so, um, calmly and like a grown up, but like, can we just take a second,

1:15.6

Sam, just to be amazed and just give the kids some, some props. Like, that is incredible. You're a

1:21.3

teenager who built an app with your friends. You got it to 30 million in annual revenue and sold your company just now

1:31.1

to My Fitness pal. And last time we talked to you, you were on, like, I think literally

1:37.3

you're a lunch break and you were in high school. I know that you were applying to college,

1:42.7

and on the podcast, you were like saying, I think I'm going to go to college. Are you, are you like on your lunch break at college now? Is that where you are? Are you at a dorm? I mean, I'm not going to lie. I've missed like many classes this semester. I'm at the University of Miami. I am a freshman. But, yeah. Okay, so you're a freshman at Miami.

2:01.1

And I believe, by the way, I remember being outraged on Twitter by this.

2:05.2

I think I was one of your defenders here where you applied to a bunch of college you wanted

2:09.5

to go to and you got rejected, which is insane to be a teenager who's got a app that's

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