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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nTaylor 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.\n\n## What Taylor builds\n\n- [YNAB](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ynab.md), graded B, 65.1/100, in Subscriptions, bills \u0026 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 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jesse Mecham](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jesse-mecham/), Founder\n- [Todd Curtis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/todd-curtis/), CEO\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Taylor Brown?\n\nTaylor 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.\n\n### What does YNAB make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### How are Taylor's tools graded?\n\nYNAB is graded B, 65.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ynab.com/\n- https://www.ynab.com/about\n- https://www.ynab.com/help-center\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YNAB\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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