Jason Fried: The next generation bends over →
tedr:
caro:
Mint was a key leader of the next generation of game changers. And now it’s property of Intuit — the poster-child for the last generation. What a loss. Is that the best the next generation can do? Become part of the old generation? How about kicking the shit out of the old guys? What ever happened to that?
As more great new companies are absorbed into big old companies, a whole new generation of change is lost. They can issue press releases saying how excited they are to be able to bring their product to a whole new world of customers, and how their new suitor will bring enormous resources to bear, but we know that’s usually not really what happens. Development slows, products stall, the staff that built the great stuff leaves, and mediocrity creeps in. Not always, but usually.
Perhaps Mint will change Intuit?
tedr: Huh? I had no idea this was a revolution. I surely would have wanted to do something more important than improve people’s user experience with the Internet if I had known. I’m glad 37 signals has been steady at the healm making sure the world has slightly better project management software, expensive conferences and a debatably better software framework to show for it. How did I miss this revolution for so long?
Win.
for me, it’s enough that Mint exists at all. I don’t use it myself (I use yodlee), but I recognize how they’ve opened up the space of personal finance: they’ve made it cool.
