As TechCrunch reported last month, Yadegari is the co-founder of the viral AI calorie-tracking app Cal AI, which Yadegari says is generating millions in revenue, on a $30 million annual recurring revenue track. While we can't verify that revenue claim, the app stores do say the app was downloaded over 1 million times and has tens of thousands of positive reviews. Yadegari hadn't intended on going to college. He and his co-founder had already spent a summer at a hacker house in San Francisco building their prototype, and he thought he would become a classic (if not cliche) college-dropout tech entrepreneur. He posted the whole thing on X. It repeatedly said how he never planned on going to college and documented his experience making ever more money as a self-taught coder. He wrote how VCs and mentors reinforced the idea that he didn't need college. All until he had an epiphany: 'In my rejection of the collegiate path, I had unwittingly bound myself to another framework of...
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