Larry Chiang graduated engineering school with a FICO over 800 and so did Duck9 co-founder Matt Smith. Leveraging his hacked credit score, he self-funded his small business and now teaches creative founder financing and street smart legal at Stanford Engineering. His class on ‘technology entrepreneurship’, Engineering 145, is also the focus of his Bloomberg BusinessWeek column “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. He preaches street smarts. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“ (it’s the same title as his NY Times bestseller). He will be the first to admit that three mentors helped him. Larry Chiang is Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University. If you read his hilariously awesome “What a Supermodel Can Teach a Stanford MBA” and “How to Get Man-Charm”, you will like his latest post:
Hack Your Credit FICO Score as a Stanford CS Major Undergrad.
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By Larry Chiang
I am the guy that hacked a high FICO score by reverse engineering an algorithm. I got really really rich by junior year in college because I was taught by three mentors. Usually, I just blog about entrepreneurship and hacking the transition from engineer undergrad to working-in-the-real-world engineer.
.@joerogan, did you study Chemical Engineering!? Your hilarious #netflix show had a ton of chem humor. The stuff about the hot women was a little too-funny-because-it's-true pic.twitter.com/f5XH0pbJya
— Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) January 4, 2018
For example, I reverse engineered how to graduate with the #1 highest starting salary* by getting 3 legendary internships the entrepreneurial way.
* THIS IS INCOME FROM A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY, “NALCO CHEMICAL”. THIS STATISTIC IS INDEPENDENT OF MONEY EARNED FROM THE LARRY CHIANG MINI COMPANY CONCEPT [#LCMCC] I FOUNDED THAT MADE ME A CASH MILLIONAIRE.
Hack Your Credit FICO Score as a Stanford CS Majorhttps://t.co/pjM9gnEgOU
— Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) July 9, 2016
Hacking up a good FICO credit score is tantamount. Back when I was an undergrad — I hacked the fair Isaac credit scoring algorithm. I encroached on their intellectual property and trademark but did not infringe or violate it. Yes, all this credit mentorship is barely legal. OMG, my brain is still on the five week Spring Break I took. Sorry. It is all legal.
I repeat: This is all legal.
-1- Jack Up Your Credit Score: Add 24 1’s
1s are on-time credit payments.
But I can’t get a credit card NOW and I’m a motivated Freshman… Plus I know that co-signed credit cards dont help.

Ask yourself, “What is 11:11”?
1’s are on-time credit payments.
24 ontime payments that correlate to your social security number.
24 1s that are quite easy to do…, but way easier not to do it.
-2- Get the family power bill in your name.
If you’re an orphan or have parents that don’t live in the country. I will put one of my houses power bill in YOUR name. I will park $5k in your account. My monthly power bill is about $350.
If you have parents, get the family power bill in your own name. Then make sure your mom does not screw you by forgetting to pay the APS power bill. APS is in arizona. PG&E is california. Fill-in-your-parents’ state.
-3- Get the family cell phone bill in your name.
I kinda dont trust you enough to put one of my 8 cell phones in your name… but, we’ll will see. Paying a cell phone bill that is attached to your social security number helps your FICO. Getting a cell phone bill in your name helps foreign VCs with their FICO. Yeah, I help VCs too. It also helps entrepreneurs who are now VCs but wreaked their credit when they were volatile income-streamed
Going zero to .333
Going zero to one
Going zero to 800https://t.co/al0FIcg9VV#cs183duck9 is a sequel to #cs183 pic.twitter.com/JyZzLezAmb— Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) September 9, 2016
-4- Duck the 9’s
Charge-offs kill your credit
-4a- Charge-off paid off collection notice but primary account fails to update that you paid
-4b- Charge-off from college apt utility bill
-4c- Charge-off from unpaid parking ticket
-4d- Charge-off from closed account where you did auto-pay
-4e- Charge-off from closed account where you could not dispute a wrong charge because your account is closed
The hashtag is ‘AmexDuck9’ and here are awesome videos
The Jay Z Concert in Austin Texas where CS major undergrads got to go with me
Larry wrote a sequel to a book he did not write. It came out 09-09-09. It is called ‘What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School‘.
Larry’s book released 09-09-09
This post was cranked out in about an hour so email me if you see a spelling or grammatical error(s)… chiang9 @duck9 com. IF you see something wrong, text me at https://twitter.com/6502838008.
Larry Chiang is the founder of Deep Underground Credit Knowledge 9 (Duck9). He hacked Fair Isaac’s FICO credit algorithm and battles lies told by the credit industry such as Fair Isaac’s claim that the average FICO is 720. The real average is 535.
Text or call him during office hours 11:11am or 11:11pm PST +/-11 minutes at 650-283-8008. If you email him, be sure to include your cell number in the subject line.
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Four months ago I wanted a house, a car and also to start up my own business but I was denied as a result of my poor credit score. Larry Chiang helped me raise my SCORE TO 775, cleared all the negative information on my credit profile replacing them with astounding trade lines.
I love youuuu
My utmost gratitude goes out to larry chang, REPAIR WIZARD. Some months back, I have really been searching of a good credit expert to help me fix my bad report. He did not just increase my credit score to a high 700s from a low 450s, but also removed some negative items which included a late payment. He is really God’s sent to me.
This content helped increase my credit score from 435 to 800.
I was really surprised even though I doubted him at first because he told me to pay an upfront service charge. What a service. He is completely good and trust worthy!
I can’t believe my credit score! HE’S THE BEST!!
hugs
don’t blow the 800 and go back. I don’t forgive that kinda shitake
Okayyyyy…
Chiang. Larry Chiang. I have an ‘i’ before the “a”
That is my number, don’t wear it out.
#strangerDanger
thankk you
Hello,
I;m in need of some credit help. I am absolutely confused with how this works, or your service. please shoot me an email.
Thx
keep reading and take lots and lots of notes. This is not something you can just skim
pretend youre taking a class in computer science. they engineered the credit system to be difffffffiCult to understand
I appreciate Larry Chiang for helping me to increase my credit score. He helped me increase my credit score to 810
Can you speak to our Delta Sigma Pi chapter?
I just want to thank Larry Chiang for all his hard work. I was very skeptical at first having never heard of someone who would establish a FICO score
are you guys hiring in Palo Alto. was at your office and left my resume with Jennifer
my current credit score is 790 and I have some positive things such as lower payments. TY!
Duck9 and Larry Chang was the best. Visit me at UA anytime 😉
-XoXo Connie Weigle
found you on Twitter. my credit score is 800+
THANK YOUUUUUU!
-PM
Hello my name is Larry Stockwell, I’m so happy rt now and you will be happy you did what this blog post talks about. Thought Larry Chang was fake, but that 6502838008 info is real. props
My name is Stance Malcolm from University of Illinois and I never believed he could help me build up my credit score to 830
Two credit card debit cards were on my Capital One – I?m so referring duck 9
Thanks again.
I was able to get my credit score to 790
Was so easy. Larry Chiang is a real person lol
He helped me and I was able to acquire my house! I believe in credit establishment with Larry Chiang’s method.
why are so many people surprised
congrats!!
happy that you found your way to a FICO of 800+
I am in need of credit repair as well, not sure how all this works.
I am in need of credit repair as well, not sure how all this works. Can you email me?
Thanks
My email and cellphone number are blasted all over this website… Text me