To Empower Success
Born from a grandfather's last words. Carried forward ever since.
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:
“If you could do one more thing, what would it be?”
“Help one more person.”
That was the last thing his grandfather said. Glen's mission in life was born.
What It Looks Like in Practice
The mission doesn't live in a frame on a wall. It shows up in the work.
Glen builds tribute pages for former coworkers. Not because they asked. Not because there's anything in it for him. He just thinks the people he's worked with deserve to have their work seen. Jordon Schulman, Josh Long, Catherine Nolan, Rod Anadon — each gets a page on his personal site, written with care, published without permission because he knows they'd never ask.
When Glen believed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders were being treated unjustly, he didn't write one angry blog post. He wrote eight books. Not to sell — to document. So that other shareholders who'd been wiped out could understand what happened, what the legal arguments were, and what the path forward looked like. He gave the information away.
After losing a million dollars and making it all back, Glen wrote a book about the mistakes so other people wouldn't have to make them. Part autobiography, part framework, part challenge. He gives the PDF away for free. The book isn't about Glen. It's addressed to whoever picks it up.
Compound interest calculators. Retirement planners. Budgeting guides. DCA calculators. Inflation tools. Mortgage breakdowns. Investing guides for beginners. All free, all on this site. No paywall, no gated content, no upsell. Just tools that help people make better decisions with their money.
Glen's Salesforce project delivery tool is free. Not freemium. Free. Open source. He could charge for it — other vendors charge tens of thousands. He doesn't, because the mission isn't to extract value. It's to create it. The product is the resume. The product drives the work.
Ask Glen about anything he's built and he'll mention David Bingham, Omar, Tim Pagliara, Larry. He'll tell you Omar hard-carried him through physics and calculus. He'll tell you David builds things in Unreal Engine that he could never touch. He'll tell you Tim Pagliara is his all-time hero. The deflection is so consistent it has to be real.
None of this is loud. There's no foundation with his name on it. No keynote speeches about purpose. No LinkedIn posts about gratitude.
There's just the work. A coworker gets a shrine page they didn't ask for. A shareholder finds a free book that explains what happened to their investment. A stranger stumbles onto a retirement calculator at 2 AM and runs the numbers for the first time.
Glen doesn't talk about the mission much. He just keeps building things that help people. The grandfather would recognize it.
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