Long Island Teen Zack Yadegali My $30 Million App wasn’t enough for Ivy…but I found my dream school
May 2, 2025 1:51pm PDT
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Zach Yodegali is an 18-year-old high school senior in Long Island, New York, and founded a calorie counting app worth tens of millions of dollars, but that wasn’t enough to enroll in Ivy League schools… and now he’s taking all LeBron James to South Beach.
The entrepreneur joined us on Friday on “TMZ Live” and asked him how he was rejected by top universities such as Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
Zach was still in high school when he deployed California. This is an app that helps people count calories using artificial intelligence.
Despite 5 million downloads, a team of 17 employees spread across four continents, with annual revenue forecasts of $30 million… Zack tells us why college admissions officers are impressed and why the admissions process doesn’t benefit young entrepreneurs.
Zach was eventually accepted to the University of Miami… and even though he is already a successful businessman, he tells me why he wants to go to university.
Catch the full interview for “TMZ Live.”
