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Shaan Puri

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

You, I think, were like between third and fourth period or on lunch break.

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

And you did a podcast recording with us in front of, I don't know, a quarter million people or something like that.

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

And now we fast forward, I don't know, a year and change later.

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

You just sold your company.

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

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

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

5.7 million in January.

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

So if you were to multiply by 12 and say like what we could do this year, you're talking about like a 50 million plus revenue company, but 30 million last year.

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

Dude, that's amazing.

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

Like, you know, just the way you say it, you say it so calmly and like a grownup, but like, can we just take a second, Sam, just to be amazed and just give the kids some props.

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

Like that is incredible.

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

You're a teenager who built an app with your friends

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

got it to $30 million in annual revenue, and sold your company just now to MyFitnessPal.

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

Okay, so you're a freshman at Miami.

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

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

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

I think I was one of your defenders here, where you applied to a bunch of colleges you wanted to go to, and you got rejected, which is insane to be a teenager who's got an app that's doing tens of millions in revenue, and the college admissions office was like...

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

We didn't like your essay or whatever.

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

Your SAT score doesn't show that you're exceptional.

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

Obviously, you were exceptional.

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

Can you tell that story of maybe facing a little bit of rejection and how that felt?

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

Why do you think that was?