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750,000 points from one card.

Is it worth it?

The Capital One VentureX business card is out with what appears to be an absolutely massive welcome bonus.

But the devil's in the details here. We'll see. We'll see. I mean,

three quarters of a million points from a single card is potentially a pretty incredible

opportunity for the right kind of person, but not necessarily for everyone. So let's talk about

the basic card details to start. So the VentureX business card is very similar to the VentureX

consumer card. So if you're familiar with that card, most of this will not be a surprise. But if

it's new for you, the basic details are that the annual fee on this card is $395. So it sounds kind

of expensive at first, but turns out to be a pretty good deal, actually, at that price.

Because at a base

level, it earns two miles per dollar everywhere. So it's a two X everywhere. You can transfer

to all of Capital One's airline and hotel partners. And the card comes with a $300 annual travel

credit for bookings made through Capital One's travel portal and 10,000 bonus miles starting at your first anniversary. So on an

ongoing basis, you've got those two benefits, the $300 travel credit when you book through

Capital One travel and the 10,000 anniversary miles to kind of offset the annual fee. And we'll talk

about whether that does or not effectively in a little bit. You'll also get Capital One lounge access.

So there are several Capital One lounges. They just opened another one, I think, pretty recently, and they've been expanding. So that's one of the benefits. You also get priority passed. So you can visit other lounges as well. And of course, like I said, you can transfer your miles to airline and hotel partners, or you can use them to erase any kind of travel charges at one cent per mile.

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