Glenn Stearns

About

An American businessman, known for his appearance on the Discovery Channel reality show Undercover Billionaire, during which he founded Underdog BBQ in Erie, Pennsylvania. His Instagram, glennstearns, doles out financial and life advice to his 380,000 followers.

Before Fame

He had a hard start in life, being raised by working class parents in a low-income apartment unit outside of Washington DC. He struggled in school and failed the fourth grade due to his dyslexia. When he was 14, he fathered a child at 14. He founded Stearns Lending in 1989 and was chief executive officer from its founding until May 2012 when he appointed a successor. Stearns Lending was the fifth-largest privately held mortgage lender in the US in 2013.

Trivia

In 2019, the Discovery Channel TV show, Undercover Billionaire, followed Stearns as he built a startup company from scratch.

Family Life

He was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and has six children. He married Mindy Burbano in 2003 and the two live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Associated With

In August 2024, he posted to Instagram that he was filming for the show, Jay Leno's Garage, an online television series about cars and motorbikes starring Jay Leno.