Business Chief USA March 2019
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RED VENTURES<br />
Also founded in 2000, Red Ventures<br />
was the first Charlotte startup to attain<br />
unicorn status in 2015. The company<br />
operates a portfolio of technologies,<br />
digital assets, and strategic partnerships<br />
that connect consumers across<br />
three continents to brands like Bankrate,<br />
creditcards.com, the Points Guy<br />
and NextAdvisor.<br />
In January 2009, Ric Elias, co-founder<br />
and CEO of Red Ventures, was on board<br />
the infamous crash landing of US Airways<br />
Flight 1549 on the Hudson river. On the<br />
10th anniversary of the crash, Elias talked<br />
with Forbes magazine about the ways<br />
in which the event changed both his life<br />
and the future of Red Ventures.<br />
“For starters, the plan for Red Ventures<br />
completely changed after the<br />
incident,” Elias said. “We went from<br />
wanting to build a company that we<br />
could sell to deciding that Red Ventures<br />
will never be for sale. We turned<br />
the company into a perch from where<br />
to live a life. This freed us from outside<br />
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