The high schooler making $20M a year

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Episode 687: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Zach Yadegari ( https://x.com/zach_yadegari/ ), the high school kid who went from $0 - $20M in 10 months. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:45) $0 - $20M in 10 months (17:12) Sold first business for $100K at 16 (20:42) Zach's Influencer marketing playbook (24:23) Being worth $30M at 18 (34:40) How to find problems to solve with AI (38:28) IDEA: AI journal (41:09) IDEA: iOS to Android project converter (44:01) IDEA: Remotely-configurable onboarding flows for mobile apps (47:05) Running away from home at age 10 (51:10) Being peerless (54:41) Who Zach admires (56:02) Gen Z trends (1:00:06) Aging out as a prodigy (1:06:43) Keeping a beginner's mind — Links: • Cal AI - https://www.calai.app/ • Totally Science - https://totallyscience.co/ • The Great CEO Within - https://tinyurl.com/4xuvr95m • TurboLearn - https://www.turbolearn.ai/ • Fitness AI - https://www.fitnessai.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — 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	By the way, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's new on a Monday. Where are you right now?
0:05.0	I actually skipped class to do this podcast. Let's go. Sorry, Miss Bickerstaff. The boys are calling.
0:14.4	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, never look at. Okay, this kid I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off.
0:21.9	On the road, let's travel, never look at.
0:23.6	Okay, this kid right here on the screen
0:25.7	is making $20 million as a high schooler.
0:29.5	The high schooler that is making $20 million a year in revenue.
0:33.0	That is absurd.
0:34.6	Zach, welcome to the show, man.
0:36.9	I think this is actually the make everybody else feel bad.
0:39.7	When you find out that like a 17, 18 year old kids make a $20 million in high school, I think a lot of people's initial reaction is wow.
0:45.6	And another group is like, oh, man. How much of that per year's profit, Zach?
0:51.4	It's more than 30%.
0:53.0	All right. So it's very good. Ballin. We're going to tell the
0:58.0	story, figure out how it's going. Sam, do we need to address your letterman jacket? Are you just in the
1:02.1	high school mood? What's going on? Look, I found out that Zach was coming on and I wanted to look
1:07.2	apart, you know? Like, what's that movie, Sean? It's it like never been kissed where they pretended that they're in high school? Or a 21 Jump Street.
1:15.8	Yeah. That's us. Like, this is actually the second group of high schoolers that we spoke with
1:20.5	over the last two weeks. I'm Jonah Hill. All right, Zach, dude, welcome to the show.
1:27.9	You've listened to the podcast before, I understand?
1:30.2	Yeah, last two years.
1:32.3	Would you say we maybe inspired you slash were the sole cause of your success?
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