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Episode 802: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to 19-year-old Zach Yadegari ( https://x.com/zach_yadegari ) about selling his $50M/yr app to MyFitnessPal. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) How much?

(1:57) getting rejected from Stanford

(5:45) 60-second origin story

(7:27) "your biggest skill is your audacity"

(12:50) the truth about selling a company

(23:24) dos and don'ts

(27:04) Zach's douchebag arc

(29:44) first dumb purchase

(33:08) decisions that made the app worth $100M

(43:51) Idea 1: Semantic search on IG

(45:10) Idea: apps 

(48:00) filter for good ideas

(54:27) Dinner w/ Steve Cohen

(1:03:39) Where Zach is putting his money

(1:05:58) What Zach sucks at

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Links:

• Cal AI - https://www.calai.app/ 

• MyFitnessPal - https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ 

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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