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"We looked at each other and said we can't let that happen," Craig recalls. Recognizing the enormous good that could be achieved, they vowed to carry on the mission themselves, even though they knew it would be a formidable challenge.
Building RIP Medical Debt
Turning their grassroots effort into a formal organization was no easy feat. They needed funding, expertise, and a new approach to tackling the grimy, often unregulated world of debt buying.
Craig humorously admits, "Debt buying is a grimy business and badly needs more oversight, because as it stands any idiot can get into it." Demonstrating their own resilience and belief in the cause, he confesses, "I can prove that to you because I'm an idiot... and we started a debt buying company."