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But we know his extracurriculars were impressive.
Yes, we do, because the summer before senior year, Zach launched a startup, CalAI, as in calorie AI, a food tracking app.
You take a photo of what you're eating and the AI estimates how many calories are in there.
They got a database of 20 million things that you eat.
An avocado, 235 calories.
Turkey sandwich from Lenny's, that's 763 calories.
That big slice of Gruyere the size of your fist?
Oh, baby.
More calories than the Big Arch burger, Nick.
Yeah, it's like 1,108 calories.
You see, besties, calorie tracking apps have existed before, but they all required you to type every item that you're eating.
It's a pain.
Friction is the enemy.
So Zach used AI to digest the image and spit out the number so you don't have to type it.
Which reminds us of rule number 303 from T-Boy Business School.
If you can let people be lazier,
you are solving a market problem.
And it could lead to millions for you.
Now, the co-founders of this app got into the University of Miami, and they've continued scaling the business from there through a whole bunch of Facebook ads.
Boom, 15 million downloads later, they have $30 million in revenue last year as people are paying the $30 a year subscription.