"In his teens, he started building apps he deemed as "small projects." One of them isn't so small anymore, as Cal AI has taken off to become a $30 million empire. The app allows users to track calories by taking a picture of their food, inspired by Yadegari's own fitness journey. ( Fortune reviewed financial records showing the app brings in several million dollars of revenue per month.)"
"Yadegari told Fortune about the wild ride of the last two years, from bringing in a mix of friends (all older than him) as co-founders, to being widely rejected by Ivy League schools despite a 4.0 GPA, a 34 ACT and entrepreneurial success, to why he's decided to go to college anyway. "I look at it as I'm paying $100,000 a year for a vacation," he said."
"Yadegari said his success started with a personal project to bulk up when he was a (younger) teenager. "I was very, very skinny my entire life growing up, and I wanted to start getting bigger and gaining weight," Yadegari tells Fortune. When he realized a majority of his progress was coming from diet, he started to track his calories more and eat in surplus."
Zach Yadegari built Cal AI into an approximately $30 million company that lets users track calories by photographing food and generates millions in monthly revenue. The product began as a personal solution while he tried to bulk up and found existing calorie-tracking apps unusable. He combined coding skills with new AI tools to create a simpler experience and recruited older friends as co-founders. He earned top academic scores yet faced Ivy League rejections, and he plans to attend college while continuing to scale the business.
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