While most teenagers concern themselves with the latest social media trends, surviving middle school, and running around with friends, Michael Sayman was focused on building apps to support his family. Living Not So Fabulously hosts David and John Auten-Schneider speak with Sayman about his unique experience becoming a Meta generative AI software engineer and Friendly Apps founder, which made Sayman his family’s breadwinner at just 13 years old. This forced his family to confront unique dynamics and money conversations.
"I was an inexperienced 13-year-old generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue and trying to help my parents figure out how to [manage money]," Sayman explains. Sayman’s unique journey continued when he became Facebook’s youngest employee instead of attending college after graduating high school as his peers were pressured to do. "I remember just sitting in class and seeing my teacher tell us, ‘If we don’t go to college, then we won’t get a degree … and [we will] end up under a bridge.’" But then Sayman realized that the fundamental point of college is to prove trust to a potential employer. He said to himself that to get a job coding, "I can either compete with everybody else in my school to get the best grades in computer science or I could just build apps, put them on the internet, put my name on it, and have that be my résumé — have that be the trust that can be built by a company in knowing that I’m able to do the job that they’re hiring for."
Sayman’s story of navigating success, self-doubt, and finding his place in tech is an inspiring tale of how an atypical career path can still bring success. David and John Auten-Schneider dive into real money stories with activists, allies, artists, tech-gurus, and trailblazers in the LGBTQ+ community to give you tangible takeaways to tackle your wallet woes. Watch on our website or listen on your favorite podcast platform for full episodes of Living Not So Fabulously. Yahoo Finance’s Living Not So Fabulously was created and produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky.
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