My First Million
My First Million
Hubspot Media
I built a $50M AI app in high school (and just sold it for...)
1 hour 9 minutes Posted Mar 5, 2026 at 4:16 pm.
) How much?
) getting rejected from Stanford
) 60-second origin story
) "your biggest skill is your audacity"
) the truth about selling a company
) dos and don'ts
) Zach's douchebag arc
) first dumb purchase
) decisions that made the app worth $100M
) Idea 1: Semantic search on IG
) Idea: apps
) filter for good ideas
) Dinner w/ Steve Cohen
) Where Zach is putting his money
) What Zach sucks at
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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. 
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• Cal AI - https://www.calai.app/ 
• MyFitnessPal - https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ 
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• 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 /