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🗓️ 16 September 2024
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Twenty years ago, in a galaxy far, far away... Jesse Mecham launched youneedabudget.com with a budgeting spreadsheet and a modest goal: cover the $350 a month in rent he owed for the next couple years until he and his wife graduated from college. Since then, YNAB has grown leaps and bounds beyond Jesse's original idea. In today's episode, Jesse reflects on the last two decades, thanks the people who have made it happen (most importantly YOU, YNAB users!), and wonders what the next two decades have in store.
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0:00.0 | Hello, whinabbers. My name is Jesse Meekham with another episode of the |
0:08.0 | Winab podcast and I am here each week to obsess out loud about spending |
0:11.4 | purposefully, saving aspirationally, and giving oh so joyfully. |
0:16.0 | It all comes down to just four simple rules, principles. |
0:19.4 | Really one principle, it's the principle of giving every dollar a job and then the next rules principles are derivatives of that if you will |
0:28.0 | Happy anniversary. Happy anniversary to Wyanam that's what I want to say today. So this will be quick still because that is our |
0:36.5 | policy. Half of the time I've been doing Wien Wien Wien |
0:39.6 | at more than half the time. I've been doing this podcast. So this is episode 696 I believe. I could be wrong. |
0:52.0 | But what I'm not wrong about is 20 years. |
0:54.0 | 20 years ago I don't know the exact day but 20 years ago this month |
0:59.0 | I launched you need a budget.com and as you all know now if you type in you need a budget |
1:05.9 | dot com it redirects to winam.com and we don't talk about budgets that much |
1:11.2 | anymore we spent a spent good solid eight years trying to |
1:15.5 | convince people that a budget doesn't think you know doesn't mean what they think |
1:19.4 | it means and that doesn't it is hard it is hard to change the definition of a word it's easy to |
1:25.0 | add new words like lit or something or vibing or at least uses of words, but it is not easy to have everyone shed their preconceived |
1:37.1 | notions on what a budget is. |
1:39.2 | You all know what a budget is. |
1:41.6 | And Julie named the company actually, I said, hey, what should we call it? |
1:48.0 | And she goes, how about you need a budget? |
1:51.0 | And that was the extent of our market research. |
1:54.0 | So that domain was available and we bought it. |
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