How This Kid Made $170 Million in Two Years

Courtesy Digg - Business & Finance  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 11:00

Aaron Patzer launched Mint.com as a user-friendly alternative to Quicken and other personal-finance software out there.

Little did he know that just two years later, Intuit, which makes Quicken, would fork over $170 million for his website.


 

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