Zach Yadegari
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's part of the reason I even decided to go to U Miami was the support from him and a bunch of other cool people like Alex Ohanian and a bunch of others that had like reached out to support me after that.
Yeah, but I didn't get any sympathy from the post.
They were just like all mad at me.
Yeah, I don't think that you deserve sympathy.
So I'd say the first semester I had way too much fun.
I was doing too many things.
We had thrown a bunch of parties, me and a couple of my other entrepreneurial friends who were living in Miami with me at the time.
We all moved into this house together.
And so every, like every couple of weeks we'd throw a house party and I'm not going to lie.
It was definitely like, I had a lot of aura throwing these parties and the word got around the college that this is like the Cal, they call me the Cal AI guy or calorie boy.
Those are like my nicknames.
Sure.
So I started programming when I was seven years old.
I was obsessed with video games and I wanted to learn how to make my own.
So started building.
By the time I was a freshman in high school, I built my first company.
I built an unblocked gaming website that let students play games in school unblocked.
It was actually kind of accidental that I stumbled into turning it into a real company.
First, I just built it for my friends at school, but it spread really quickly.
And it grew to 5 million users through mostly me just making TikToks about it.