Ryan Smith

Smith isn’t your typical tech entrepreneur: His online survey company is based in Provo, Utah, and his cofounders are not fellow techies but include his dad and brother. After bootstrapping for more than a decade, Smith has now raised $220 million in funding. The company’s swanky new offices (ice cream parlor, basketball hoop) might sound right out of Silicon Valley, but unlike many of ­today’s startups, Smith’s is already profitable—and ­expected to go public in the next year or two. Fan of: Diet Mountain Dew.