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Actually, I worked at Mint for a little while when my previous startup was acquired into the Intuit fold. Surprisingly, Intuit actually never sold any Mint use
by georgeglue1 10y ago
Actually, I worked at Mint for a little while when my previous startup was acquired into the Intuit fold.
Surprisingly, Intuit actually never sold any Mint user data (including anonymized or batched data). The Mint data set isn't actually that valuable when compared to what Intuit makes from its 'trustworthy' brand.
And sorry for the recommendations. We tried to target intelligently and scientifically, but sometimes awkward-ly targeted recommendations performed too well for us to not run them.
- CorvusCrypto 10y agoThis makes me feel a lot better about using Mint as well. Thanks for replying man!
- kevindong 10y agoHuh, that's cool. I would've fully expected Intuit to sell user data. It's not so much that the recommendation aren't relevant (they are actually incredibly relevant; I found the cashback estimator for a given credit card based upon my actual transaction history to be very useful), but rather some of the products are just outrageously awful. (quick side note: I just checked my Mint recommendation and I'm going to recant what I said about a "significant portion" of my recommendations being awful; there's just one awful product). That one awful product is "WebsterOne® Relationship Checking". That account has a ~$15/month account fee (waived if you keep a $4,000 average balance).