Omar
The smartest person Glen knows. The reason Glen passed physics, survived calculus, and learned Salesforce. The person who actually took action after reading Act As If and set up a date with a gorgeous woman. This is his page.
The Truth, Stated Plainly
Glen Bradford has a Purdue engineering degree. He runs a Salesforce consulting company. He built a 790-page website with a 3D kitesurfing game in it. He wrote nine books. He founded a hedge fund.
None of that happens without Omar.
Omar is smarter than Glen. Glen will tell you this unprompted. He will tell you this at dinner. He will tell you this in meetings. He put it in writing on his website, in his memory files, and now on this page. It is not false modesty. It is the plain assessment of a man who watched someone else solve problems he could not solve, explain things he could not explain, and do it all while making it look easy.
The Hard Carries
In gaming, a “hard carry” is when one player single-handedly drags their team to victory while everyone else is trying not to feed. Omar has been hard-carrying Glen since college.
The kind of physics where you stare at a problem for forty minutes, write down two lines, and somehow those two lines are wrong. Omar would glance at it, explain it once, and suddenly the universe made sense. Glen passed. Omar carried.
Integration by parts. Triple integrals. Series convergence tests that might as well have been written in Elvish. Omar treated these like warmup exercises. Glen treated them like final boss fights. Guess who survived.
Years later, when Glen was learning Salesforce development on the job and pretending he knew what he was doing, Omar was there again. Apex triggers, SOQL queries, the whole ecosystem. Some people have a safety net. Glen had Omar.
The Act As If Cameo
Glen wrote a book called Act As If. Part autobiography, part manifesto, part challenge to stop overthinking and start doing. 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.
In the book, Glen describes Omar as a “chronic procrastinator.” The kind of brilliant person who knows exactly what to do but finds seventeen reasons not to do it today. We all know someone like this. Most of us are someone like this.
But here is the plot twist: Omar actually read the book. And he actually did something about it. He stopped procrastinating long enough to set up a date with a gorgeous woman. Glen considers this the single greatest real-world outcome of anything he has ever written. Nine books, 300+ Seeking Alpha articles, 2,700 blog posts — and the most impactful thing any of it ever did was get Omar to send a text message.
Glen Says:
“Omar is smarter than me. I’ve said it a hundred times and I’ll say it a hundred more. He hard-carried me through physics and calculus at Purdue. He hard-carried me through Salesforce. If I have a question about anything technical, my first instinct is still to ask Omar.”
“The funniest thing about Omar reading Act As If is that I wrote the book to challenge people to stop making excuses. And the first person it actually worked on was the one person I described as a chronic procrastinator. He set up a date with a gorgeous woman. I should have written the whole book as a dating guide.”
“The thing about Omar is that he makes hard things look easy. That is the most dangerous superpower a person can have, because everyone around them thinks those things actually are easy. They are not. Omar just makes them look that way.”
The Professional Side
Omar also has a page on cloudnimbusllc.com, Glen's professional Salesforce consulting site. That page covers the work side of things — the Salesforce expertise, the technical chops, the professional credentials.
This page is different. This page is the real one. The one where Glen gets to say what he actually thinks, which is: Omar is the smartest person he knows, and the fact that their friendship spans from Purdue physics homework to Salesforce consulting in 2026 is one of the best things about Glen's entire story.
Final Note
Every person who builds something credits the people who helped them get there. Most of those credits are polite. Glen's credit to Omar is not polite — it is desperate, repeated, and completely sincere. Without Omar, Glen probably would have changed his major to something without integrals.
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