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Boots Dunlap Built a Lending Career by Walking Toward the Mess
From combat leadership to post-crash loan workouts, the RRA Capital co-founder has made a practice of entering difficult markets with clear eyes, patient capital and a bias toward strong teams.
Upright Turned One Flipper’s Funding Headache Into a $3 Billion Lending Machine - Then Its Payment Rail Broke
Matt Rodak built the lender he wished he had when banks moved too slowly and hard-money shops charged 14 percent plus four points. A decade later, Upright’s best lesson is not merely how to scale a niche - it is how a single invisible vendor can put the brakes on the machine.
RRA Capital Waited for Banks to Say No - Then Originated $2.46 Billion in CRE Loans
The Phoenix firm began by cleaning up other lenders' real-estate mistakes. Its more useful trick was knowing when not to buy - and when to turn that workout education into a nationwide bridge-loan business.
Extra Space Storage
America's largest self-storage operator has turned spare rooms into a national operating system - pairing green doors with dynamic pricing, property management, lending and one of real estate's broadest rooftop-solar programs.
Josh Stech
Josh Stech is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sundae, a San Francisco-based real estate marketplace that connects homeowners selling as-is properties directly with qualified property investors through a competitive auction process. A Stanford graduate with degrees in Economics, Spanish, and Latin American Studies, Stech has spent his entire career at the intersection of real estate and technology - from fixing and flipping homes in post-crash Las Vegas to scaling LendingHome into the largest institutional bridge lender in its category, before co-founding Sundae in 2018 with former Airbnb CFO Andrew Swain. Under his leadership, Sundae raised $138M+ in total funding including an $80M Series C in 2021, with a mission to bring transparency and fairness to the historically opaque off-market home sale.