CEO of $1.25 billion AI company says he hires Gen Z because they’re ‘less biased’ than older generations—too much knowledge is actually bad, he warns

The founder and CEO of $1.25 billion AI identity verification platform Incode, Ricardo Amper (Credit: Courtesy of Incode)

Leaders like Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon say experience trumps everything in business—including brains. But Ricardo Amper, the founder and CEO of $1.25 billion software company Incode Technologies, believes Gen Z’s naivety is a professional blessing rather than a career curse. 

“My belief [is] that coming out with a fresh mind, first principles, is important. That’s why young people are particularly helpful in tech, because they’re less biased,” he tells Fortune. “I think too much knowledge is actually bad in tech: you’re biased.”