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18 years old 34 ACT 4.0 GPA $30M ARR biz Stanford ❌ MIT ❌ Harvard ❌ Yale ❌ WashU ❌ Columbia ❌ UPenn ❌ Princeton ❌ Duke ❌ USC ❌ Georgia Tech ✅ UVA ❌ NYU ❌ UT ✅ Vanderbilt ❌ Brown ❌ UMiami ✅ Cornell ❌

Cal AI just passed $1 million in revenue. Today was my first day of high school senior year. Was this destiny? Did I will this into existence? Luck? I don’t know.

A year ago, I was inspired to get into the app space by reading stories like this one.

I have never let schooling interfere with my education. -Twain

Update: I officially committed to Umiami

We built Cal AI to $1.8 million MRR from our high school classrooms There is nothing stopping you

Didn't get into Stanford but at least I made the cover of Tech Crunch

Fighter pilots don’t need much runway

The same reason this feels much cooler on paper is why I want to get into hardware.

$58k in one day. I’m only 17 and I’m just getting started. Going to start open sourcing my journey. Could not have happened without the incredible team at Cal AI. Only A players.

Speed. That’s everything. Never lose it.

There’s so much mediocrity in the world that if you set your standards high enough and never tolerate less from yourself or others, you will dominate any industry

Graduated today

I saw a tik tok today that said: "If your life was a movie and people were watching. What would the audience be screaming at you to do?" Very quickly I realize the answer is that I should completely not go to college, get an office, and move the team in house to go full hard core on taking over the calorie tracking space. Even though I only plan to go for a semester just to check it out and hopefully build some friendships, part of me really wonders if it is a complete waste of time. I think it ultimately is a question of optimization. Do I want to go all in on prioritizing building great companies? Or do I want some sort of balance? Maybe I can do both. But what's certain is that it would be a more exciting movie if I put my entire social life on the line and didn't go to college. Yet, life isn't a movie, so probably not what I should optimize for.

You guys have spent more time breaking down our onboarding flow than we spent building it 😂 Stop overthinking

18 years old 34 ACT 4.0 GPA $30M ARR biz Stanford ❌ MIT ❌ Harvard ❌ Yale ❌ WashU ❌ Columbia ❌ UPenn ❌ Princeton ❌ Duke ❌ USC ❌ Georgia Tech ✅ UVA ❌ NYU ❌ UT ✅ Vanderbilt ❌ Brown ❌ UMiami ✅ Cornell ❌

Update: I officially committed to Umiami

Cal AI just passed $1 million in revenue. Today was my first day of high school senior year. Was this destiny? Did I will this into existence? Luck? I don’t know.

I saw a tik tok today that said: "If your life was a movie and people were watching. What would the audience be screaming at you to do?" Very quickly I realize the answer is that I should completely not go to college, get an office, and move the team in house to go full hard core on taking over the calorie tracking space. Even though I only plan to go for a semester just to check it out and hopefully build some friendships, part of me really wonders if it is a complete waste of time. I think it ultimately is a question of optimization. Do I want to go all in on prioritizing building great companies? Or do I want some sort of balance? Maybe I can do both. But what's certain is that it would be a more exciting movie if I put my entire social life on the line and didn't go to college. Yet, life isn't a movie, so probably not what I should optimize for.

Just got offered a 50/50 split to code a mystery app… should I quit everything and risk it all?

Didn't get into Stanford but at least I made the cover of Tech Crunch

The same reason this feels much cooler on paper is why I want to get into hardware.

Trying some guerrilla marketing for Cal AI

Graduated today

Today marks Cal AI’s 1 year anniversary

I’ve done a lot of deep thinking recently about the meaning of life, purpose, and goal chasing. This is the current and ever-growing list of what I want to do over my life. Big goals: -Give a keynote speech launching a product like Steve Jobs did with the iPhone -See someone in public using my product in a random location like a subway -Make a song that hits the Spotify top charts, then perform that song in front of a crowd -Have a movie or documentary made about my life -Have 1 billion people use something I create -Go to space Smaller goals: -Ride in a private jet with my friends -Fall in love -Meet the people I’m inspired by… so far (MrBeast, Hormozi, Musk)

A year ago, I was inspired to get into the app space by reading stories like this one.

Ever since I was a kid, I had my dream car bookmarked on google to motivate me. Now, after years of hard work, I finally brought my dreams to reality. Youtube video documenting it 👇

Building copy cats with 0 innovation is the lowest signal thing a “founder” can do

We built Cal AI to $1.8 million MRR from our high school classrooms There is nothing stopping you