Kenneth Lin

CEO & co-Founder at Credit Karma

Ken started Credit Karma in 2007 to offer free credit scores and bring transparency and simplicity to the credit industry – an industry that was built around and had long prioritized banks above consumers. He has guided the company from a small team of three to a team of several hundred employees who are disrupting consumer finance, serving millions of people.

Ken spent his early career working with mission-driven businesses like Upromise and Eloan, and he was inspired to build Credit Karma – a platform where consumers can manage their full financial lives with more certainty, supported by a unique business model that creates genuine, organic value by reducing marketing inefficiency for banks and empowering consumers with information. Like LinkedIn has done for professional identity and Facebook for social lives, Ken’s vision is that one day Credit Karma can create a simple way for Americans to manage their financial identities.

Ken also founded Multilytics Marketing in 2006 and has a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Boston University.

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