Dave Ramsey

When I print a book...

It's either good or bad.

I'm stuck with it.

It's on the shelf for the next 40 years.

It's a printed book.

When I put something out in the digital world, I can change it tomorrow, and I can change it the next day, and I can change it the next day and make it better as I go along, and I will.

And so the EveryDollar budgeting app does not even resemble

the app that was launched under the name EveryDollar originally.

It has iterated and upgraded, iterated and upgraded, iterated and upgraded almost every other week for years.

And so your software engineering costs have just begun, my friend, if this is actually going to work and be successful.

Your patent stuff is probably early and tremendous overkill.

Um, you know, the number of times that people steal something on an Apple store is just not that big.

It doesn't happen much except the Chinese steel and stuff.

Right.

And, and duplicating it.

But I mean, I'm talking about the number of times that someone just comes in and scarfs up an idea that because you didn't have it patented.

Um, so, you know, it's, you know, I don't, I'm pretty sure none of the budgeting apps out there that are the top budgeting apps are patented just to give you an idea.

And, of course, here's the other thing.

As soon as you patent it, you're going to iterate it and change it.

So then you've got to update the dadgum page.