Glenn Stearns
Founder/CEOKind Lending
WHY: In 1989, founded Stearns Lending, which he built to 2.7K employees and more than 100 retail locations. In 2015, sold a majority stake to Blackstone in one of the largest acquisitions of a private lending company ever made in the U.S. In 2019, he began Santa Ana-based Kind Lending, which is now arranging $1B month in mortgages.
NOTABLE: Was first star of “Undercover Billionaire” TV show. Two-time cancer survivor. Appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” with his wife Mindy in October 2003.
FUN FACT: “Mindy and I love to jump on our e-bikes, ride to the Balboa Peninsula, and drop in on our daughters at their places of work.”
QUOTABLE: “Once I let go of fear, I truly felt freedom and it boosted my confidence that my aspirations could absolutely come to fruition. So I began fighting for my desires: digging deep, communicating, and giving my vision all that I had. While most were negatively looking backward and believing failure was imminent, I was looking forward and found the rewards were waiting right there all along – deeper and greater than I could’ve dreamed.” — Glenn Stearns website
