💰Glenn Stearns Net worth: $1 Billion
Glenn Stearns Net Worth: Glenn Stearns is an American business executive who has a net worth of $1 billion. Glenn Stearns is the founder of Orange County-based Stearns Lending. Stearns Lending generates around $500 million per year in revenue and employs more than 1700 people. In 2015, private equity behemoth Blackstone acquired a 70% stake in Stearns for an undisclosed amount. Glenn Stearns was born to alcoholic parents and thanks to dyslexia, failed the fourth grade. He fathered his first child at 14 then graduated at the bottom of his high school class. Determined to not meet the same fate as his parents and friends who were addicted to drugs and alcohol, Glenn, with the help of mentors, became the first person to attend and graduate from college when he earned a degree from Towson University. After college he moved to California where he slept on the kitchen floor of a one-bedroom apartment he shared with five other guys. He waited tables to make ends meet before landing a job as a loan officer. When he was 25 years old in the year 2002 he founded his own mortgage company, Stearns Lending. Within a decade the company was handling $1 billion per month in funding. Unlike many of its peers, Stearns managed to survive and thrive after the 2008 real estate crash and actually emerged as one of the top lenders in the United States. Between 2010 and 2019, Stearns funded $30 billion worth of loans which made it the #1 wholesale lender in the country in 2003 and one of the top 10 in the other years. He is the father of six and grandfather of two. Glenn and his wife Mindy Stearns are active philanthropists who donate to many causes. The couple appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2003 to discuss their journey and vision.
"Undercover Billionaire": On August 6, 2019, Glenn will make his debut on the Discovery Channel series "Undercover Billionaire". The show will place Glenn in Erie, Pennsylvania away from his private jet and yacht, with just $100 in his pocket to see if he can build another multi-million dollar business from scratch in 90 days. He will not be able to use any of his former contacts or resources and will assume a new identity, "Glenn Bryant".
