What is Mint?

Elevator Pitch

Mint is building a free, simple, and secure personal finance web-app. Designed to be effortless, Mint consolidates your financial life in one place. Easily see how much you have, how much you owe, and where you money goes. Advanced alerting notifies you before you bounce a check or forget to pay a bill. Patent pending algorithms even show you personalized ways to save and make more money. If your finances could use organization without effort, or a big improvement without a lot of work, Mint is for you.

Funding and Support

Mint is backed by leading early stage funding firm First Round Capital, and strategic angel investors, including top former or current executives from eBay, Intuit, Google, Yahoo, Charles Schwab, Wilson Sonsini, Reuters, Adteractive and Weblogic/BEA. Mint’s executive team is comprised of experts in security, privacy, consumer Internet, business development, and advanced algorithms from companies like PayPal and PGP.

Location

Our offices are located in the heart of Silicon Valley at 280 Hope Street in downtown Mountain View, California.

Our Philosophy

Values serve as principles for excellence in thinking and action. Accordingly, all current and future employees must put into practice Mint's four core values:

Reward Merit

  • Choose the best ideas, regardless of whom or where they came from.
  • Choose only the best people. Value ability, productivity, creativity, and actual accomplishments over seniority and formal credentials. One great employee out-produces three good employees.
  • Individuals should be assessed objectively and rewarded in proportion to their contribution towards company goals.

Quantify Everything

  • Strive for timely, accurate, detailed, and reality-based data for every decision and every process.
  • Make decisions on an honest, objective analysis of facts; not on hunches, wishes, or gut feelings. In the end, wishing won't make it so, and blind hope is not a strategy. Real strategy is based on real knowledge.

Value Simplicity

  • Always look for the simple, elegant solution. Complexity in any business process or software algorithm is an indication we probably do not fully understand the essence of the issue.
  • Our customers do not have the time nor patience to learn software, read manuals, or wait for a helpdesk response (and rightly so). At least 90% of what 90% of all people want to do should be quick, intuitive, and obvious. Simplicity equals actual functionality.

Integrity

  • Integrity is the principle of being principled. Regardless of any perceived short-term benefits, acting inconsistently with our guiding principles is always to our long-term detriment.