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🚀 18 Years Old & $12M ARR: How Two Teenagers Scaled a Nutrition App to $12M in Less Than 12 Months

$12M ARR. Zero funding. Two teenage founders. This is how Cal.AI built a viral AI nutrition app in under a year

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Guillermo Flor
Apr 20, 2025
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Yes, you read that right. Cal.AI is the brainchild of two teenagers—Blake Anderson and Zach Yadegari. Blake had just graduated college. Zach? He was still in high school. At 7 years old, Zach was already coding. At 13, he sold a gaming site for $100,000. Together, they launched a product that’s redefining what early-stage velocity looks like.

Two Gen-Z founders bootstrapped Cal AI to 100,000 downloads and $1M in  revenue in 4 months

This is exponential growth in action—and today, we’re breaking it down so you can learn exactly how to replicate it.

In this deep dive we analise:

  1. How they came up with the idea

  2. How they built (and shipped) the MVP fast

  3. How they went viral and hit $1M ARR in just 4 months

  4. 5 growth hacks they used—and you can steal

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