# Taylor Brown

> Taylor Brown is co-founder and CTO. YNAB on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

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](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ynab.md), graded B, 65.1/100, in 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 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Jesse Mecham](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jesse-mecham/), Founder
- [Todd Curtis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/todd-curtis/), CEO

## Questions

### 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.

## Sources

- https://www.ynab.com/
- https://www.ynab.com/about
- https://www.ynab.com/help-center
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YNAB

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