Scott Cook: Co-founder of Intuit

About Scott Cook: Co-founder of Intuit

Scott David Cook (born 1952) is an American billionaire businessman who co-founded Intuit and also serves as a director of eBay and Procter & Gamble. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1976), where he serves on the dean's advisory board. Cook began his career at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, where he learned product development, market research and marketing, then moved to strategic consulting at Bain & Company in Menlo Park, California. He soon began looking for an idea for his own company, and it came one day when his wife complained about paying the bills. With personal computers just coming out, he thought there might be a market for basic software that would help people pay their bills. He launched Quicken and named his company Intuit in 1983; today Intuit offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances. Cook was Intuit's president and CEO from April 1983 to April 1994 and its chairman from February 1993 to July 1998. In 2002 Cook and his wife, Signe Ostby, established the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, the nation's first university-based center focused exclusively on training MBAs in brand and product management. In 2005 he was No. 320 on the Forbes 400 with a net worth of $1.1 billion. Sources: English Wikipedia (Scott Cook, accessed September 2026).

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Co-founder, Intuit (Quicken)

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Intuit

Financial Software, Accounting

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