Mint.com

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 .... 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 2006 before he met Josh Kopelman 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.
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Tod began his career two decades ago at Johnson & Johnson, marketing Tylenol and related drugs. Excited by the prospect of selling brand-new... goods to consumers, he joined Ram Group Marketing Management, where he consulted for Pepsi and helped launch new products including Pace Picante sauce. Later he joined Trinity Ventures as a General Partner, where he helped build mass-market brands including Jamba Juice and PF Chang's China Bistro. Tod is perhaps best known for his dedication to investing in Internet companies even when Internet investments were out of fashion. Those investments include BabyCenter, which was later acquired by J&J, and online jewelry retailer Blue Nile which held a successful IPO in 2004. Tod founded Shasta Ventures in 2003, a $200 million venture capital firm where his focuses on investing in Internet companies serving the consumer and small business markets. Tod holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Economics and an MBA both from Northwestern University.
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