Built Between Bedtimes – Episode 37: He Lost $110,000 in a Gator Lending Scam, Got Kicked Out of a Thread, and Almost Invested in a Second One

Built Between Bedtimes · Sep 4, 2026 · 39m

In this episode, the guys smuggle a cantaloupe into a theater, Rob gets the boys into swimming lessons, and then things take a turn. Rob opens up about losing $110,000 in a gator lending scheme — transactional lending in Indiana that looked legit, had a spreadsheet, had a track record, had urgency built into every deal, and then disappeared to Mexico eight months in. Then comes the bonus story: the second operator who cussed him out on a group thread for asking too many questions, banned him from future deals, and then — two months later — got investigated for something significantly darker…