We didn’t have money for a lawyer, but no fewer than three offered to help us incorporate and accrue $25k in legal fees for a little bit of the company. Our technology was all open source, and essentially all free: MySQL at the bottom, Hibernate to avoid the need to hire a DBA, Tomcat on Apache, Yahoo’s YUI served as the base for our AJAXy goodness. We interviewed the first real “professional,” our VP of Engineering, David Michaels in our kitchen. It started in my apartment, with Matt Snider and Poornima Vijayashanker. Mint was built in the Silicon Valley way. I doubt this could have happened anywhere but Silicon Valley. What’s perhaps even more amazing about this opportunity is that we made it to this point just three years after the company started: one year to build, and two years in operation. This is a great opportunity to bring Mint’s technology and easy-to-use personal financial management system to potentially tens of millions of consumers, an eventually small businesses and banking customers as well. Intuit, a $10b company (NASDAQ: INTU) is perhaps best known as the maker of Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax. Today, exactly two years after launching at TechCrunch40, I’m excited to announce that has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Intuit for about $170m. Patzer has written two previous guest posts for TechCrunch. Last night the news broke that Mint is being acquired for $170 million by Intuit. Aaron Patzer is the CEO and founder of, a personal finance site that launched two years ago at TechCrunch40.
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