How This Kid Made $170 Million in Two Years

inc.com — 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. Nov 19, 2009 View in Crawl 4

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acetracer Nov 21, 2009

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It's an obvious play on the infamous Kevin Rose/Businessweek headline.Except this kid made $170 million in real money, not dot com bubble 2.0 money.

cheddaro Nov 22, 2009

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Step 1, ignore all advice from articles like this, and just hope to get incredibly lucky like these guys did.

wkrausmann Dec 5, 2009

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Anyone can make money on a spam machine.

frederickgirl Dec 5, 2009

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Adolescence isn't over until you're 26There is a reason NO ONE is eligible to be president until you are a LEAST 35 years oldI tell all the 20 yr olds who go to work for me:"You've only been on this planet for less than 7,000 days ,1000 of them you were in diapers, 3000 of them you were asleep! You wonder you don't know anything numbnuts!!!"

frederickgirl Dec 5, 2009