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The Jesse Mecham Show

254 - A Quick Look Back, and Talking About Going Forward

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A look back at 2016 (our craziest year ever). A look forward to 2017. At least the first quarter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, whinabers my name is Jesse Meek, and This is podcast number 254 for Wienham.

0:14.0

Where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt

0:18.0

and save more money. Middle of December, but I'm looking ahead to next year. I want to talk a little bit about

0:25.3

behind the scenes aspect of Wyneb and the software. 2016 was by far the rockiest year we have ever had because we switched our entire

0:34.5

business model. We launched an entirely new application on an entirely new

0:38.9

stack, tech stack, and we had a whole bunch of stuff to learn along the way. We learned about scaling

0:44.3

support a lot better than we have before. The Direct Connect feature we've had to

0:48.9

learn a lot about that and still far from perfect we have made significant improvements there more to come

0:56.1

but what's the biggest priority for why now and Q1 of next year

1:00.6

it's gonna be mobile it's gonna be. We've been pushing it hard all this year but you

1:07.4

know we only have so many people and only so much time and so next year we're

1:11.2

just going to continue the push continue continue, we have more people on the

1:14.3

mobile side of things now than we do on the website. And we're really pushing hard to get

1:19.2

mobile to be something that kind of makes the web app not nearly so important.

1:27.0

Maybe for some of you, not useful at all.

1:30.0

And that's our big priority for next year. Beyond that, we just want to have people

1:35.9

spread the word about how to budget better, how to manage your money where you can

1:41.5

eliminate a little bit more stress from your life.

1:46.1

So yeah the tech is fun, the tech is exciting, I enjoy it, but at the end of the day what

1:50.2

we're really trying to do is get people to change their behavior.

1:52.6

And since more people than ever before in the history of the world, as far as I can tell,

1:57.6

are using their mobile devices for just about everything,

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