I Spent 24 Hours With iOS Millionaires

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About this video

I traveled to New York to spend 24 hours with the guys who built and sold Cal AI for millions.

The video answers one main question: now that AI lets anyone build an app, is it still possible to build a successful one in 2026?

Along the way, we talked about what it was like to build a company with your friends, and what they're doing now that they've sold.

Chapters

• 0:00 iOS Millionaires
• 1:20 What’s your story?
• 2:24 Numbers behind Cal AI
• 2:48 Meet the other co-founders
• 3:36 What was it like to work together?
• 3:59 Did you know it’d be successful?
• 4:48 Becoming co-founders
• 5:38 Managing conflict and trust
• 6:58 Build your own iOS app
• 7:39 Opportunity in apps in 2026
• 8:32 Does copying apps still work?
• 9:15 Advice for building apps
• 10:00 NYC office tour
• 10:25 What did it feel like to sell Cal AI?
• 10:58 The game of entrepreneurship
• 11:42 What are you working on now?
• 12:46 Final thoughts from Pat