264,486 emails · 23 years · One story
Getting to Know
Glen Bradford
If you're reading this, you're probably someone Glen has worked with, invested alongside, learned from, or annoyed at some point over the past two decades. This is the story of how a Purdue engineering student who couldn't spell “Salesforce” ended up running a team, writing eight books about government-sponsored enterprises, and building a 790-page website with a 3D kitesurfing game in it. Buckle up.
264,486
Emails
8
Books
300+
Articles
790+
Pages
Indiana
Before any of this
Glen Bradford — full name G. Richard Bradford, III — grew up in Indiana. He'll tell you he spent the first quarter-century of his life “directionally challenged.” That's from his own book, by the way.
His grandfather was the kind of man who shaped everything that came after. In 2011, Glen held his grandfather's hand as he lapsed in and out of consciousness, hours before he died of cancer in his home. Glen looked into his eyes and asked the best question he'd ever asked:
“If you could do one more thing, what would it be?”
— Glen's grandfather — his last words
“Help one more person.”
That was it. Glen's mission in life was born: To Empower Success. Everything that follows — the fund, the books, the crusade, the team, the website — traces back to that moment.
His father is a college professor who once had an original song pop into his head at 25 and couldn't let it go. Years later he recorded it, made a music video, and now tells his classes about it. Not to become famous. Just to get it out of his head. Glen clearly inherited whatever that gene is.
His grandmother, still sharp, once told Glen that in her book club, the first hundred pages and the last fifty is all you really need to read. Everything in between is filler. Glen took that advice, wrote a book, and put blank pages in the middle to prove her point.
In middle school, Gene Stowe taught Glen to write before Glen knew he'd need to. In high school, Rod Anadon taught him to program. Glen still talks to both of them. He remembers every teacher he's ever had — even the ones who held him back. Especially those ones, actually. He'll tell you he appreciated learning from all of it.
Then came Purdue. Engineering degree. The kind of education that teaches you everything is a system — even the stock market.
The Kid With the Spreadsheets
~2006–2009
It started with his friend Doug Hall, who got him into the Excel stuff. Picture this: summer of 2006 or 2007 — Glen doesn't even remember which — sitting in an open garage in Kentucky, deseasonalizing historical financial data across hundreds of companies in a single weekend, eating rotisserie chicken and drinking Coca-Cola. That's the origin story. Not a trading desk. A garage, a spreadsheet, and a Costco chicken.
From there he went deep into the SMF add-in forums — a community of obsessives who built custom Excel functions to pull live market data. He was extracting LIBOR spreads, scraping Morningstar feeds, building financial models from scratch. Not because anyone asked him to. Because he saw how systems worked and couldn't help himself.
Somewhere in there he read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham and everything clicked. Benjamin Graham ruined his social life and improved his net worth.
The Hedge Fund Nobody Asked For
2010–2013
By 2010, Glen was all in. E-Trade alerts firing. InvestorsHub posts flying. Real money on the line.
By 2011, he'd somehow founded Global Speculation LP — an actual hedge fund. Three fund vintages. Real K-1s. Convertible notes and preferred stock certificates. The whole deal.
2013 was the year Glen decided the world needed to know who he was. He sent “Introduction — Glen Bradford” emails to Gladstone, Blackstone, and every firm that would open an email from a twentysomething in Indiana running a fund called Global Speculation III.
Did it work? The fund imploded. Glen lost a million dollars. Tuition paid.
So he wrote a book about it. In 2012, sitting in the wreckage, he wrote Act As If — part autobiography, part manifesto, part self-help book that nobody asked for. He called it a New York Times Bestseller on page one because, and I quote, “THIS IS BECAUSE I CAN.” It has blank pages in the middle. On purpose. His grandmother told him the middle of most books is filler anyway. Glen just made that literal.
The Fanniegate Thing
2013–2026, still going
It started with John Hempton's blog. Glen was reading John — who he still follows and still considers a genius — and stumbled into the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac shareholder story. Around 2014, he bought common shares. By 2016–2017, he'd done enough homework to realize that common stock lacked restructuring protection, so he moved into preferreds. That's the kind of guy Glen is: he doesn't just hold and hope. He reads the legal filings, adjusts, and then writes a book about it. Eight books, actually.
Twelve years of conviction
- 300+articles on Seeking Alpha
- 8books in the Fanniegate series
- 20+people in the trenches together for a decade
- 12years of litigation: Rop v. FHFA, Cacciapalle, Pagliara v. Freddie Mac, Third Amendment, Appaloosa v. United States
Tim — the person Glen admires most in the world. CapWealth CEO, Investors Unite founder, and still texting Glen in 2026. Bill, David F., Robert at Yale, Todd at ValuePlays, Steve, Peter, Ryan, and many others. You know who you are.
In 2025, the headline read: “Trump's Bessent To Explore GSE Restructuring Options.”
Most people would have moved on after year two. Glen wrote book number eight. Whether this pays off financially or not, the sheer commitment is the story. And every single person in this network played a part in keeping the fight alive.
Learning Salesforce on the Job
The Innovate years
Here's something Glen will tell you himself, because he thinks it's funny: he got hired at Innovate! Inc as a Salesforce developer and basically learned how to develop on the job. He didn't really know what he was doing when he started. Larry and Matt B. were the ones who helped him figure it out in those early years. Larry's still there. The team carried him until he could carry himself.
Over the years, the skills stacked up: Apex, LWC, Marketing Cloud, Einstein Bots, JIRA workflows, data migrations, the whole enterprise toolkit. A decade of learning from smart people and solving hard problems one at a time.
But it's the people Glen talks about, not the certifications. Laura, Josh, Jordon, Catherine, Rob, Phil — he built shrine pages for several of them on his website. Not because they asked. Because that's what Glen does when he respects someone.
Glen misses the conversations with Chris from GSU and their Friday weeklies. He still hopes to get Innovate on Delivery Hub someday, with unique logins for all the people he used to work with. The relationships didn't end when the job did. They never do with Glen.
From Employee to Employer
The shift that changed everything
The Mobilization Funding contract changed everything.
Glen started doing the Salesforce work for MF through Danny at At Large — At Large handled the app development side, Glen handled Salesforce. And somewhere in the middle of that work, Glen discovered something: he was better at leading a team than being a team of one. The contract gave him room to bring people on, cover more ground, move faster. Instead of writing every line of code himself, he became the person making sure the right things got built.
The connection that made it all work: David B.
Glen had found David on the Salesforce subreddit years earlier. David ended up at Innovate for about a year. They stayed in touch, and when the time was right, the partnership rekindled. David's middle name is Bradford. You genuinely cannot make that up.
David founded Nimba Solutions. Glen runs Cloud Nimbus LLC. Together with a growing team, they started building Delivery Hub — a free, open-source Salesforce product for project delivery and ticket management. The GitHub PRs are flying in 2026.
The goal isn't to work more hours. It's the opposite. The team delivers. The product works. Glen does less while the machine gets bigger.
The Website That Got Out of Hand
2024–2026
And then there's the website. Because Glen can't do anything at normal scale.
glenbradford.com by the numbers
It has an XP system. It has achievements. It has a 3D kitesurfing game built in Three.js. It has financial calculators, investment guides, and 2,715 blog posts. There's a working market mood ring. There's a “Guess the Billionaire” quiz. There's a page where you can read fake LinkedIn profiles for Julius Caesar and Sun Tzu.
cloudnimbusllc.com is the professional front. It has subtle game easter eggs for people who look closely.
It's a resume, a portfolio, a sales funnel, and an entertainment platform all at once. It's also just Glen being Glen — the same person who built Excel financial models for fun, started a hedge fund by himself, wrote eight books about a single investment thesis, and learned Salesforce on the job because nobody told him he couldn't.
The People
Because that's what actually matters. Glen's story doesn't work without these people. Every one of them played a part.
The Family
Grandfather
The Origin'If you could do one more thing, what would it be?' 'Help one more person.' The last thing he said. Glen's mission was born.
Father
College ProfessorHad an original song in his head at 25 and couldn't let it go until he recorded it. That gene clearly transferred.
Mother
Eternally OptimisticEternally optimistic and overflowing with youth. You'll understand where Glen gets it from the second you meet her.
Grandmother
The AdvisorStill giving advice. First hundred pages and the last fifty is all you need. Glen proved it with blank pages.
The Teachers & Early Crew
Gene Stowe
Middle School TeacherTaught Glen to write before Glen knew he'd need to. Still in touch.
Rod Anadon
HS Programming TeacherTaught him to program. Still in touch. Probably didn't know he was creating a monster.
Doug Hall
The CatalystThe friend who got Glen started with the Excel stuff. Garage in Kentucky. Rotisserie chicken and Coca-Cola. The origin story.
The Investing Crew
Sam
The MapGave Glen the CNO tip back in 2008-2009 that changed his life. Some people hand you a map and you don't realize it until years later.
Michael May
The Tutorial LevelYellow Media. Glen fumbled the restructuring but came out well owning the preferred stock. The lessons led directly to the preferred stock thesis.
John Hempton
The BloggerThe writer whose blog started the whole Fanniegate chapter. Glen still follows him and considers him a genius.
The GSE Crew
Tim
Glen's All-Time HeroCapWealth. Investors Unite. Still texting in 2026. The person Glen admires most in the world.
The Inner Circle
A Decade of ConvictionBill, David F., Robert, Todd, Steve, Peter, Ryan, HV, Michael C., Michael G. — 20+ people with thousands of emails between them.
The Day-One Crew
Thousands of Emails DeepRik, David M., Stevey, Barry, Fosco, J.E. — if you were on those email threads, you know.
The Innovate Crew
Larry
MentorMentor from day one. Still at Innovate. The person who made sure Glen didn't get fired before he figured things out.
Chris, Phil, Rob, Laura
The TeamFriday weeklies, hard problems, real relationships. Glen misses the conversations. The relationships didn't end when the job did.
Matt B.
Early DaysThe other person who helped Glen not get fired when he didn't know what he was doing.
The Cloud Nimbus / Nimba Team
David B.
Co-BuilderFound on the Salesforce subreddit. Middle name is Bradford. You cannot make that up. Founded Nimba Solutions. The partnership that made the team model real.
Danny at At Large
The BridgeThe connection to Mobilization Funding. At Large handles the app; Glen handles Salesforce.
Jesse, Alexander, Matt K.
Future Delivery HubStack Sports, Safelite, and former colleagues — future Delivery Hub pitches. The network keeps growing.
The Inner Circle
Jeff
Miami BeachFriend. Miami Beach. Part of the inner circle that makes the day-to-day real.
Paul (Pakor)
Kitesurfing FriendGerman speaker. Confirmed the accuracy of Glen's /egal page. Paul-approved badge on the website.
What's Next
And why you should care
Delivery Hub: Free. Open Source. For Everyone.
Delivery Hub is a Salesforce-native project delivery and ticket management tool. It's free. It's open source. And it's being built by people who've spent a combined 20+ years in enterprise Salesforce wondering why project management inside Salesforce is still so painful.
The strategy isn't to charge per seat. The strategy is to get Delivery Hub into as many orgs as possible, prove it works, and build relationships with the teams using it. The product drives the work. The work funds the team. The team makes the product better. Flywheel.
The Content Machine: 790 Pages and Counting
glenbradford.com has 21 new SEO-optimized financial calculators and guides that just went live. Every one of them is genuinely useful — savings account guides, FIRE calculators, tax bracket tools, investment guides. The site earns through Amazon Associates while Glen sleeps.
The GSE Endgame
Twelve years. Eight books. 300+ articles. And now Bessent is exploring restructuring options. If you've been in this fight — you know. If you haven't — read the books.
The Actual Big Picture
Glen Bradford is a Purdue engineer who taught himself finance through Excel, started a hedge fund in his twenties, wrote eight books about a single investment thesis, learned Salesforce on the job because nobody told him he couldn't, evolved from employee to employer through a single contract that showed him the team model works, and built a 790-page RPG-themed website with a kitesurfing game in it.
He still talks to his middle school teacher. He builds shrine pages for his former coworkers. He credits David, Omar, Tim, Larry, and basically everyone except himself for anything good that's happened.
The plan going forward is simple: the team delivers, the product spreads, the website earns, and Glen does less while the machine gets bigger.
If you're reading this and your name is on this page — you helped build this. And there's room for you in whatever comes next.
Honorable Mentions
264,486 emails. 23 years. These are the people who showed up in Glen's inbox enough times that the data noticed. First names only, because professional discretion.
From the investing years
From the Innovate / GSU years
From the MF / At Large / Nimba years
From everywhere and nowhere
The recruiters who kept emailing. The Salesforce support team (30,574 emails — yes, really). The InvestorsHub users who sent private messages at 2am. The Google Voice texts. The calendar notifications that technically count as relationships.
Your name should be here?
This page is a living document and Glen wants you in it. If you see yourself in this story, or if you should be here and aren't — reach out.
Compiled from 264,486 emails across 23 years. Written March 2026. Updated continuously because the story isn't over.
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The visual version of this story — every milestone with animations.
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8 books documenting the largest government theft of private property.
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The motivational book with blank pages in the middle. On purpose.
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Investment performance from over a decade of managing money.
Read moreInvestingCurrent Positions
Full portfolio disclosure — 26 series of GSE preferred shares.
Read moreWriting2,715 Blog Posts
SeekingAlpha archives, market analysis, and investing insights.
Read moreTechSalesforce Hub
Mistakes, tools, and tips from 10+ years in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Read moreCompanyCloud Nimbus LLC
The professional front. Salesforce development and Delivery Hub.
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Three.js, physics-driven, two-string kite model. Built for fun.
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