Ric Elias

Ric Elias is the cofounder and CEO of Red Ventures, the digital media company that owns brands like The Points Guy, Bankrate and Lonely Planet.

He started Red Ventures with friend Dan Feldstein in 2000 and grew it by buying up specialized websites.

It bought personal finance site Bankrate for $1.4 billion in 2017 and paid $500 million for product reviewer CNET in 2020 (which it sold to Ziff Davis in 2024).

A Puerto Rico native, Elias has started multiple foundations, including Golden Door Scholars, which provides scholarships to undocumented students.