{"id":9065,"date":"2016-12-03T12:07:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2016-12-03T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:20:59","slug":"ceo-of-duck9-larry-is-a-humorous-financial-literacy-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/ceo-of-duck9-larry-is-a-humorous-financial-literacy-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of Duck9, Larry, Is A Humorous Financial Literacy Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">By Larry Chiang<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">I try to be funny.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Well, if I am not funny at least I was educational. These may sound like jokes&#8230;, but every attempt at humor is law-based humor as per America&#8217;s FCRA (fair credit reporting act). Grinding out blog posts where you act, execute and note-take FCRA laws have met mixed results. Thus, I now mix in pictures of my ass and humor.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Enter, belfies<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Let us look at belfies. Butt selfies. Belfies knowledge activate a hole in financial literacy (metaphorical pun intended #hole). Belfies are similar to credit reports that Experian, Trans Union and Equifax (herein referred to as #ExpTransFax). Belfies are <b>you<\/b>&#8230;, you taking a picture of <b>your<\/b> hind quarters exactly like the wake of credit data that you leave behind every month on&nbsp;#ExpTransFax.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The FICO grid is #ExpTransFax {Experian, Trans Union and Equifax} vs Time. See how I tied in the most mysterious financial metric *Fico* to a belfie?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"9EE993B5-E13C-4500-82E7-4A79011E5614\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\nNot. Photoshopped.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image5-1.jpg\" alt=\"image5.JPG\" id=\"860F0F7D-21AA-489C-92E4-47817C7AFE96\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Thank you for your belfie pics that you text&nbsp;<\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">@6502838008<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Seemingly simple, belfies go off the rails pretty fast. The definition of a belfie is a butt selfie. A selfie is a picture that you yourself take. A belfie is NOT&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image2-1.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" id=\"BB0E0981-F836-404E-94D0-A844C12810CB\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>R2D2. Your R2D2 underwear makes me think of Stanford Engineering&#8217;s venture capital. Butt, it&#8217;s not a belfie<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image3-1.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" id=\"BBB45B32-064D-4B96-AE97-7F0DCA589E04\">\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">That&#8217;s not a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Belfie&amp;src=hash\">#Belfie<\/a>. That&#8217;s a selfie with no butt.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image4-1.jpg\" alt=\"image4.JPG\" id=\"A0944464-863B-423F-899D-E0DFA9F5A5A0\">\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">faux,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Belfie&amp;src=hash\">#Belfie<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">REMEMBER, belfies are similar to credit reports that Experian, Trans Union and Equifax. So let us do what &#8220;Betty Sue&#8221; did and photoshop our butt<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Let us make our butt bigger.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Let us make our&nbsp;Experian, Trans Union and Equifax bigger by adding positive information to it<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image6.jpg\" alt=\"image6.JPG\" id=\"79F155F3-F82E-4577-A9D9-63ABD934F3C7\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Let us make our #ExpTransFax bigger by adding positive information to it<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">This is where blogging about FICO scores takes a pretty crazy turn&#8230;. You can jack up your FICO via&nbsp;Experian, Trans Union and Equifax by using Victoria&#8217;s Secret, secret shopping cart hack. Victoria&#8217;s has the most lenient and slutty credit standards. By slutty, I mean open to any inquiry and any credit score. Victoria&#8217;s will lend you $500 to buy bras because their COGS (cost of goods sold) is about $30 bucks for that $500 of product.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image8.jpg\" alt=\"image8.JPG\" id=\"00682E97-E3F2-43BB-976B-685385627CB2\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image9.jpg\" alt=\"image9.JPG\" id=\"2421B15D-D675-45C8-8D3F-236B8DED659C\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Victoria&#8217;s Box de la post office is #PObox16589. Ask me in person because I memorized this because it&#8217;s important!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image12.jpg\" alt=\"image12.JPG\" id=\"B09DAB3B-CE18-4CFA-BF56-47DEAFB4B75A\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Me and Betty Sue say&#8230; Pump in 24 months of ONTIME payments sent to PO Box 16589<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image10.jpg\" alt=\"image10.JPG\" id=\"A44350CE-5E67-4232-9DFF-77ED7DF39BCA\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Katherine&#8217;s life sucks because everyone thinks she got a butt job. She&#8217;s all natural!!!! She&#8217;s a Victoria&#8217;s Secret model.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Katherine&#8217;s picture reminds me to remind you that verrrrrry few people are just born with a FICO over 800, perfect boobs and zero stomach fat.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image11.jpg\" alt=\"image11.JPG\" id=\"E3CADE13-00E7-42AB-8524-CCED90A9CC9B\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">FTC disclosure: I learned of the Victoria Secret FICO score hack from Kenneth Lin&#8217;s #CreditKarma website.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/361307546\/larry-chiang9-duck9-business-card_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">CEO of Duck9, Larry (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@6502838008<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008\/status\/773923796315099136?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">9\/8\/16, 9:39 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Thank you for stripping the PII (personally identifiable info)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Belfie&amp;src=hash\">#Belfie<\/a>&nbsp;cc&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RH2VPyb7zn\">pic.twitter.com\/RH2VPyb7zn<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image7.jpg\" alt=\"image7.JPG\" id=\"ABBC119F-9CD8-44BC-A8DE-9F5D4CC57869\"><br \/>\nThank you for stripping the PII (personally identifiable info)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Belfie&amp;src=hash\">#Belfie<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/804745050299068416?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">12\/2\/16, 9:52 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/efoPjDO8qU\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">pic.twitter.com\/efoPjDO8qU<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/361307546\/larry-chiang9-duck9-business-card_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">CEO of Duck9, Larry (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@6502838008<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008\/status\/621022869795962880?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">7\/14\/15, 11:26 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&#8220;That&#8217;s not a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Belfie&amp;src=hash\">#Belfie<\/a>. That&#8217;s a selfie with no butt.&#8221;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\n{btw; Was this at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CCsd&amp;src=hash\">#CCsd<\/a>!? U look like my c :-]&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oarWoYkiM5\">pic.twitter.com\/oarWoYkiM5<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/361307546\/larry-chiang9-duck9-business-card_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>CEO of Duck9, Larry (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@6502838008<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008\/status\/796028144893296640?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">11\/8\/16, 8:34 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Thought you would like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a> &#8211; a faux, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Belfie&amp;src=hash\">#Belfie<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23fauxBelfie&amp;src=hash\">#fauxBelfie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nvJP9bEhCp\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/nvJP9bEhCp<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\">\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang I try to be funny.&nbsp; Well, if I am not funny at least I was educational. These may sound like jokes&#8230;, but every attempt at humor is law-based humor as per America&#8217;s FCRA (fair credit reporting act). Grinding out blog posts where you act, execute and note-take FCRA laws have met mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-school-level-knowledge-about-credit-scores","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}