Ben Roberts

The story

From a family idea to a billion-dollar fintech.

Ben Roberts is one of the co-founders of LoanPro, a Utah-based fintech that built the software banks and lenders use to run their loans. It started as a family venture and grew into a company valued $1B+, the kind of milestone people call unicorn status.

Getting there took capital and conviction. LoanPro raised around $100M to fund its growth, and the work got noticed. In 2023, Ben was named to a 40 Under 40 list, the short list of people building something that matters before most of their peers have hit their stride.

Outside the company, Ben gives back through Become More Charity. He is the kind of founder who builds the boring, durable infrastructure that other businesses run on top of, and then turns around to help the next person up. That is exactly the spirit of Construction Cash.

Why it matters for builders

Build the durable thing, then scale it.

Ben did not chase a quick win. He helped build infrastructure other companies depend on, the unglamorous software that has to work every single day. That is a lesson a construction owner can feel in their bones.

If you run a $1M to $5M construction company, your version of durable infrastructure is your systems: how you hire, how you quote, how you follow up, how you keep a job moving when you step off the site. Build those well and you can scale without everything riding on you. Founders like Ben grew past the founder bottleneck by trusting the system they built. That is the same path that takes a contractor from busy to actually big.