CEO and founder of Mint, Aaron Patzer, joins Consumerism Commentary again to discuss his company’s recent acquisition by Intuit and possible changes to personal finance software.
Also on today’s poscast, Tom Dziubek speaks with Bryan Olson from Charles Schwab about the new rules for Roth IRA conversion that will be in effect next year.
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[00:00] Introduction from Flexo
[00:36] Interview with Aaron Patzer, CEO and founder of Mint, about their recent acquisition by Intuit
– [01:29] Mint users’ reaction to news of the acquisition
– [01:55] Aaron’s new role at Intuit
– [04:56] The future of Quicken Online
– [06:36] Interfacing with ING Direct
– [08:27] Impact on Mint employees
– [11:28] Aaron discusses spending the earnings
[14:12] Interview with Bryan Olson of Charles Schwab about 2010 Roth IRA conversion rule changes
– [14:46] Roth IRAs vs. traditional IRAs
– [15:29] The conversion rule changes
– [16:20] Government incentives for these changes
– [17:35] Who benefits from the changes and what should be considered
– [21:22] People who benefit the least from a conversion
– [22:56] Differences of impact between age brackets
[24:12] End
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Updated March 22, 2011 and originally published September 20, 2009. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the RSS feed or receive daily emails. Follow @flexo on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for more updates.
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Luke Landes founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 and has been building online communities since 1990. Luke, also known as Flexo, has contributed to PC World Magazine, US News, Forbes, and other publications. 
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This was a good interview with Aaron Patzer and it was interesting to know the plans for Quicken online and how Mint will come to replace that software and continue to remain free. I couldn’t see how both pieces of software could remain in the same space, especially since Aaron is now going to have oversight for the personal finance suite of products. Thanks for more information. I updated my recent article, Intuit Buys Mint and Weekly Round Up with some of the information share in the interview.
http://onemoneydesign.com/blog/2009/09/18/intuit-buys-mint-com-and-weekly-round-up/
Jason, many thanks. BTW, I saw you talking about The Grocery Game in your article. I interviewed Teri Gault about haggling a few weeks back and the podcast should be running this weekend.
Tom,
Thanks for the heads up about your interview with Teri. We’ve had good success with the Grocery Game, so I felt like I could write a post about it to inform others. I look forward to listening to your interview.