Founder of a listed tool

Taylor Brown

Co-founder and CTO, named behind the YNAB listing on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder and CTO

Taylor Brown is co-founder and chief technology officer of YNAB. In 2006 he contacted founder Jesse Mecham offering to make the YNAB spreadsheet import bank transactions, the two built YNAB Pro together over email and phone calls, and he joined the company full-time in June 2008.

What Taylor builds

  • YNAB B · Subscriptions, bills & personal finance

    YNAB is a subscription budgeting app for people. Its REST API reads and edits a user's plans, accounts, categories, payees and transactions, with personal access tokens or OAuth for apps other users authorise.

    Co-founder and CTO, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Taylor Brown?

Taylor Brown is co-founder and chief technology officer of YNAB. In 2006 he contacted founder Jesse Mecham offering to make the YNAB spreadsheet import bank transactions, the two built YNAB Pro together over email and phone calls, and he joined the company full-time in June 2008.

What does YNAB make?

Anchor Terminal lists YNAB from YNAB. YNAB is a subscription budgeting app for people. Its REST API reads and edits a user's plans, accounts, categories, payees and transactions, with personal access tokens or OAuth for apps other users authorise.

How are Taylor's tools graded?

YNAB is graded B, 65.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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