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.