The original idea before Mint was a life and goal ... -Aaron Patzer

The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.

Aaron Patzer Quotes to Explore

I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so...

The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, an...

I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can ans...

At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new fi...

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real rea...

When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and share...

I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I...

The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, get...

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstandi...

Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then se...

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I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm ...

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous lear...

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, ma...

The role of innovation inside the company is so important. That's how we get growth, and there's no way to drive innovation without learning and chang...

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant...

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsc...

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really...

Obviously, learning the martial arts is a big part of my training, but the other part of being a Marvel superhero is, well, looking like a superhero....

My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started...

Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't ...