Aaron Patzer
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Aaron Patzer is an internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mint.com
.
Patzer graduated from Duke University
in 2002 with a BSEE. He also has an MSEE from Princeton University
. Patzer got his first work experience in the Internet boom years of 1998-2000, working for Getawebsite.com and Miadora.com (an online jewelry store). After a number of engineering positions and internet startups, Patzer founded Mint.com in March 2006. According to Patzer, he got the inspiration for Mint.com in late 2005 after being frustrated with how difficult it was to use the Intuit Quicken product.
Patzer developed the full alpha version of Mint.com (in Java J2EE and mySQL
) in 2006 before he met Josh Kopelman
(founder of half.com
) and Rob Hayes at a STIRR dinner in the fall of 2006. The meeting led to funding, and Patzer launched Mint.com at the TechCrunch40 conference a year later, in September 2007, winning the $50K first prize.
In September 2008, Patzer was listed in Inc. magazines Top 30 Under 30.
On September 14, 2009, Intuit announced that it would buy Mint.com for $170M. At the time of the announced sale, Mint.com had an estimated 1.5 million users.
Mint.com currently has approximately 3.5 million users.
Mint.com
Mint.com is a free web-based personal financial management service for the US and Canada created by entrepreneur Aaron Patzer. Mint originally provided account aggregation through a deal with Yodlee, but has since moved to using Intuit for connecting to accounts...
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Patzer graduated from Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
in 2002 with a BSEE. He also has an MSEE from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. Patzer got his first work experience in the Internet boom years of 1998-2000, working for Getawebsite.com and Miadora.com (an online jewelry store). After a number of engineering positions and internet startups, Patzer founded Mint.com in March 2006. According to Patzer, he got the inspiration for Mint.com in late 2005 after being frustrated with how difficult it was to use the Intuit Quicken product.
Patzer developed the full alpha version of Mint.com (in Java J2EE and mySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
) in 2006 before he met Josh Kopelman
Josh Kopelman
Joshua Kopelman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.Kopelman is best known as the founder of Half.com, a fixed price marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of used books, movies and music products. In 2000, Kopelman sold Half.com to EBay for US $350...
(founder of half.com
Half.com
Half.com is a subsidiary of eBay, in which sellers offer items at fixed prices, usually items that have a UPC, ISBN or other kind of SKU, rather than rare, old or collectible items...
) and Rob Hayes at a STIRR dinner in the fall of 2006. The meeting led to funding, and Patzer launched Mint.com at the TechCrunch40 conference a year later, in September 2007, winning the $50K first prize.
In September 2008, Patzer was listed in Inc. magazines Top 30 Under 30.
On September 14, 2009, Intuit announced that it would buy Mint.com for $170M. At the time of the announced sale, Mint.com had an estimated 1.5 million users.
Mint.com currently has approximately 3.5 million users.