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How to Lend Money to Strangers

Automating complex data-driven decisions, with Martin Chudoba (Taran)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

Credit, Fintech, Management, Lending, Banking, Business, Careers

52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The global covid pandemic shut down a lot of things, but new vehicle supply chains were among the hardest hit. A knock-on effect of that was that Taran, an advanced analytics and AI consultancy saw their hot lead for a new contract evaporate. But sometimes setbacks are really opportunities in disguise, and as Taran's leadership team adjusted to put all their eggs in their remaining project, they realised that they were more than a consultancy, they had a product on their hands - and, more or less, that's how Taran Decision Manager was born.



In today's episode, I'm speaking to Martin Chudoba, co-founder and CEO about that journey, and about how Taran DM can help lenders to automate and improve their complex, data-driven decisions.



As you'll hear, you can find Taran on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/taran-ai/



Which is also where you'll be able to reach out to Martin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-chudoba-76703b15/) or Steve Henderson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveghenderson/) who is the MD of their North American operations



Or you can go straight to the source, and find what you need over at https://tarandm.com/



I'm on LinkedIn and always open to new genuine connections - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange - please do reach out, and follow the show's page, too



Meanwhile, my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is discussed at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24



But I'm also co-creating a new podcast called hAIghtened senses which will look at the intersection between human senses and technology, especially AI-powered technology. You can already start to follow it wherever you're listening to this one - there's only a trailer there at the moment, but we've recorded some of the early episodes and it's going to be a fun ride!



Keep well, Brendan



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0:00.0

How's it going? It's Jake Humphrey here from the High Performance Podcast.

0:03.5

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out more. Terms apply, capital at risk. Virgin Money is a trading

0:24.2

name of Virgin Money Unit Trust Managers Limited. Welcome to how to learn money to strangers with Brendan Lagrange.

0:39.0

I've been madly busy recently and that's without getting past the first chapter of the book I've

0:45.3

been promising to write this year. No, my time has been spent recording episodes

0:50.1

to close out this season of How to Lend Money to Strangers and recording the

0:55.2

episodes to launch the first season of Heightened Censes. A new podcast

1:00.2

project I'm co-creating with Christo Fonsail. We haven't been talking about it much yet, but if you are

1:06.2

interested in the way in which technology is enhancing and expanding the reach of our

1:11.4

human sensors.

1:12.6

Think drone carried cameras paired with AI image recognition or used in medical diagnostics.

1:18.2

Think chemical sniffers or AI algorithms that can take away the noise from a construction environment without limiting our communication.

1:26.0

Or like Kristo and I heard in a phone call that ended just hours ago,

1:30.0

flying a drone over a volcano to capture images we couldn't get any other way.

1:34.8

We're not going to be too fussy about it, so pretty much anything innovative that exists within sight of those topics is fair game.

1:41.9

There's not much there yet, but it's launching in May, so we are

1:45.4

busy creating the social media channels and if Kristo or I reach out to ask you to

1:50.8

follow a page or two to please to oblige.

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