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Nilay Patel

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

whether or not they think they're going to get paid back.

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

Being able to do that at scale and saying all of these should be centralized stores of information and not more local, right?

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

It's my local bank and my local community that needs to evaluate my risk profile.

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

There's something about that scale that feels different.

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

And obviously Experian enables massive scale.

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

Do you think your responsibility is different with scale?

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

It's definitely worked to make the cost of capital come down in various ways, although who knows what's going on right now.

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

Every day could be different.

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

But I think my question is very โ€“ That's predictable.

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

But I wonder if the tradeoff is a feeling of disempowerment for the actual consumer.

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

And that's one of those tradeoffs that it's hard to โ€“ yes, there are some privacy laws in the United States.

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

There are not very many.

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

Yes, there are some recourse against a financial institution or if there's a data breach, but there's not many.

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

And so I'm just interested in that tradeoff, in your perspective in that tradeoff.

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

I will say that you have perfectly teed up the decoder questions as you describe the structure of multinational banks because experience org chart to me from the outside is bananas.

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

straightforwardly.

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

There's Brian Kasson, who is the CEO of Experian.

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

Then there are CEOs of regions.

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

So there's a CEO of Latin America, from North America.

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

And then there's you, and you were the CEO of technology and software.