Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Broās first apps all flopped, until he pivoted to AI.
Meet Blake Anderson. 25 years old, from Philadelphia. Started building apps at Tulane and watched most of them fail.
Then he shifted to AI apps, DMād a kid named Zach, and together they built Cal AI.
Month 1: $30K
Month 2: $100K+
Month 8: $1M/month
On track for ~$50M this year
The lesson: the flops werenāt wasted. They were the reps that set up the pivot.
Broās first apps all flopped, until he pivoted to AI.
Meet Blake Anderson. 25 years old, from Philadelphia. Started building apps at Tulane and watched most of them fail.
Then he shifted to AI apps, DMād a kid named Zach, and together they built Cal AI.
Month 1: $30K
Month 2: $100K+
Month 8: $1M/month
On track for ~$50M this year
The lesson: the flops werenāt wasted. They were the reps that set up the pivot.
