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July 16, 2010

Interview with Mint.com founder

You may have heard us mention Mint.com a time or two around here. For the uninitiated, Mint is a free, web-based money management tool. Founder Aaron Patzer launched Mint in 2007. It quickly rose to the top of web-based financial tools and two years later, he sold it to Intuit (maker of Quicken/Quickbooks) for $170 million.

While most of the beefs I had in the SMI review I wrote in 2008 (subscribers' link) have been addressed, I wanted to ask about a couple that hadn't:

An envelope budgeting option, and
The possibility of a comprehensive part standalone product, part web-based product, and part mobile product all rolled into one.

I was able to ask Aaron Patzer (who still heads Mint, though now as part of Quicken) about these two features during a live webcast he did yesterday. If you're interested in how he answered, fast forward to the 13:16 and 28:00 marks, respectively.