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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by ashishk on Thursday December 03, 2009 @12:28AM (#973785)
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?

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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by davidmurphy on Thursday December 03, 2009 @04:43AM (#974029)
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).
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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by shizcakes on Thursday December 03, 2009 @12:09AM (#973768)
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.
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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by akc on Thursday December 03, 2009 @03:07AM (#973934)
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!
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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by bumblebird on Thursday December 03, 2009 @04:30AM (#974020)
>> 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.

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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by pan69 on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:55AM (#973922)
Maybe a stupid question but does anyone know how they hook into your bank account and credit card details?
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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by richardburton on Thursday December 03, 2009 @04:06AM (#974002)
Mint.com is built on Yodlee's banking-data platform.

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...

Personally I think that such insane attention to detail on the user-interface is admirable and he definitely deserves the sale.

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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by ecaradec on Thursday December 03, 2009 @03:15PM (#975132)
but how does yodlee then ?
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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by ecaradec on Thursday December 03, 2009 @03:17AM (#973945)
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/
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Re:A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) by TrevorBramble on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:40AM (#973913)
Offshoring internal support? Is that common now? (I haven't worked at a big company in some years.)
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