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Re:Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million by run4yourlives on Monday September 14, 2009 @01:57PM (#822191)
That to me sounds like a better model than Mint.

Mint just received $170 million. Yodlee did not.

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Re:Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million by bmelton on Monday September 14, 2009 @03:52PM (#822472)
But we don't know that Yodlee isn't doing 170M revenues a year either. Getting aquired and making money don't necessarily equate to each other in the most obvious ways.

Youtube was a huge money sink, and got a huge acquisition. Mint is, I believe at least, somewhat profitable, and only got $170M. The timing had a lot more to do with it than anything, but as a consumer, I'm a LOT more likely to give money to Mint than Youtube, and the YouTube founders are arguably a lot richer than the Mint founders.

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