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Bill Fair
1922-12-13 – 1996-01-19
Life & Legacy
FICO (legal name: Fair Isaac Corporation), originally Fair, Isaac and Company, is an American data analytics company based in Bozeman, Montana, focused on credit scoring services. It was founded by Bill Fair and Earl Isaac in 1956. Its FICO score, a measure of consumer credit risk, has become a fixture of consumer lending in the United States.
In 2013, lenders purchased more than 10 billion FICO scores and about 30 million American consumers accessed their scores themselves. The company reported a revenue of $1.29 billion for the fiscal year of 2020.
Occupation & Career
businessperson, electrical engineer
Education
California Institute of Technology; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley
Legacy Highlights
Employer
University of Nevada, Reno
Education & Institutions
California Institute of Technology · Stanford University · University of California, Berkeley
Sources & Provenance
- Wikidata population candidate Q4908940 — wikidata View source
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