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A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit)

33 points by andrewpbrett 17y ago

shizcakes 17y ago
A twinge arrogant, a twinge lucky, but I feel like this kid gets it. I mean, it's an easy statement to make considering his success, but nonetheless, I like his style.
ashishk 17y ago
My personal rule is I’m not touching anything I got from the acquisition. I’m just going to continue to live off of my income. Wonder what his plans are. Investing? Funding his next startup? Philanthropy?
TrevorBramble 17y ago
Offshoring internal support? Is that common now? (I haven't worked at a big company in some years.)
pan69 17y ago
Maybe a stupid question but does anyone know how they hook into your bank account and credit card details?
- ecaradec 17y ago
  Since it doesn't work with every bank and I heard it is sometimes waky, I suppose it is a hack like : http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Finance/ http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Finance/
- richardburton 17y ago
  Mint.com is built on Yodlee's banking-data platform. http://www.yodlee.com/index2.shtml http://www.yodlee.com/index2.shtml You can check out Techcrunch's view on Mint's use of Yodlee's data here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/mint-is-yodlees-youtube/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/mint-is-yodlees-youtube... Personally I think that such insane attention to detail on the user-interface is admirable and he definitely deserves the sale.
  - ecaradec 17y ago
    but how does yodlee then ?
akc 17y ago
word on the street is he took on his last round of financing at an extremely high valuation in order to drive the asking price of Mint up. Sounds like the investors in the last round got screwed!
bumblebird 17y ago
>> Q. Was Mint profitable at the time of sale? >> A. We do not comment on revenues. Odd, surely a simple yes/no isn't giving too much away.
davidmurphy 17y ago
Wonder how things will work out for him in Intuit's bureaucratic culture -- kinda surprised how much he publicly belittled their bureaucracy (as deserved as the criticism was).

33 points by andrewpbrett 17y ago

A twinge arrogant, a twinge lucky, but I feel like this kid gets it. I mean, it's an easy statement to make considering his success, but nonetheless, I like his style.

ashishk 17y ago

My personal rule is I’m not touching anything I got from the acquisition. I’m just going to continue to live off of my income. Wonder what his plans are. Investing? Funding his next startup? Philanthropy?

TrevorBramble 17y ago

Offshoring internal support? Is that common now? (I haven't worked at a big company in some years.)

pan69 17y ago

Maybe a stupid question but does anyone know how they hook into your bank account and credit card details?

ecaradec 17y ago
Since it doesn't work with every bank and I heard it is sometimes waky, I suppose it is a hack like : http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Finance/ http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Finance/
richardburton 17y ago
Mint.com is built on Yodlee's banking-data platform. http://www.yodlee.com/index2.shtml http://www.yodlee.com/index2.shtml You can check out Techcrunch's view on Mint's use of Yodlee's data here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/mint-is-yodlees-youtube/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/mint-is-yodlees-youtube... Personally I think that such insane attention to detail on the user-interface is admirable and he definitely deserves the sale.
- ecaradec 17y ago
  but how does yodlee then ?

akc 17y ago

word on the street is he took on his last round of financing at an extremely high valuation in order to drive the asking price of Mint up. Sounds like the investors in the last round got screwed!

bumblebird 17y ago

>> Q. Was Mint profitable at the time of sale? >> A. We do not comment on revenues. Odd, surely a simple yes/no isn't giving too much away.

davidmurphy 17y ago

Wonder how things will work out for him in Intuit's bureaucratic culture -- kinda surprised how much he publicly belittled their bureaucracy (as deserved as the criticism was).