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Alex Lintner

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616 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

No, that's the 4,000 plus 7,000 equals 11,000.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Of the 23,000 employees that we have at Experian, 11,000 work in technology organizations.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

4,000 work in the central group that's sort of mine, and the other 7,000 work in the business units.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

I mean, that's the work every day, Nilay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

That's, you know.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

It's not always easy.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

People think, oh, my division can build it better or faster or different, and therefore we should.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So we communicate.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

We have what we call a technology executive board.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

which I run.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

I'm the chair of that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

All the CTOs sit on that and we disclose roadmaps.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

We talk about standards and make sure that if once we have a standard defined, there is no rebuilding, then it's all about reuse.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So that's our governance model in order to coordinate everybody, the technology executive board.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

I have a right-hand person.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So we have a group CTO, Rodrigo, and he works with the CTO to say, what do you think we should talk about?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And then he makes a decision on what's on the agenda.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

It gets to me, call it a week before the meeting.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

I say, yeah, I like it, or I don't want to talk about this.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

I want to talk about that.