{"id":327555,"date":"2026-03-04T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327555\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:04:09","slug":"teen-who-created-50m-app-might-quit-college-follow-his-interests-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327555\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Who Created $50M App Might Quit College, Follow His Interests Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Teen tech whiz Zach Yadegari is giving us a major update on his life after he sold his calorie-counting app a year after we first learned about it … and he’s now considering his options after half a year in college.<\/p>\n

Zach stopped by “TMZ Live” Tuesday and spilled a few details about the multimillion-dollar deal selling the company he started at age 16 … now 19, he’s taking a “gap semester” after half his freshman year at the University of Miami … one of the few schools that accepted him somehow, with his multimillion-dollar brain!<\/p>\n

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You might remember … he told us last year he got rejected from most of the Ivies<\/a> — and now he admits his time at Miami could be wrapping up early … after taking a cue from Steve Jobs<\/a> and taking classes on just whatever he’s found interesting. Watch the full clip for more on how that experiment’s gone so far.<\/p>\n

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Zach also ran the numbers with us … revealing Cal AI is on pace to hit about $50 million in revenue this year, up from $30 million last year. He couldn\u2019t get into the nitty-gritty of the contract, but let\u2019s just say he\u2019s very happy with how things shook out.<\/p>\n

So yeah, degree or no degree … safe to say Zach\u2019s gonna be just fine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content TMZ.com Teen tech whiz Zach Yadegari is giving us a major update on his life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,43,112,2510,80,4526],"class_list":{"0":"post-327555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-news","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-tmz-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}