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I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

~Aaron Patzer

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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

~Aaron Patzer

Topics: Able Being Big Big Idea Busy Done Effortless Enough Finances Had Idea Invent Kept Know Led Life Make Management Me Money Personal Preliminary Problem Research Start-Up Stay Top Weeks Which Work Working

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I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.

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Topics: Australia Been Bit Business Canada Deals Doing Expanding Globally Happen Make Mint Much New New Zealand Personally Quite Quite A Bit Research Spending Them Time Zealand

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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 reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

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Topics: Amazon Books Finance Literally Look Mean Personal Pretty Real Real Reason Reason Search Simple Written You

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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.

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Topics: Airline Back Card Cash Credit Credit Card Every Get Give Gives Least Miles Month Off Pay Percent Purchase Rewards Will You Your 1 Percent

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I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.

~Aaron Patzer

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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

~Aaron Patzer

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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, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

~Aaron Patzer

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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 put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.

~Aaron Patzer

Topics: About Actually Building Businesses Career Computer Computer Science Currently Degree Duke Electrical Engineering How Myself Number Princeton Put School Science Started Then Through Websites

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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 many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.

~Aaron Patzer

Topics: Actually Ad Advantage After Anything Area Because Competitive Competitive Advantage Deals Feel Go Healthcare Invest Like Many Mobile Networks Other People Players Simply Smart Smart People Social Space Tend Things Those Where I Feel I Feel Like E-Commerce

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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