Ryan Smith
Ryan Smith is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder and executive chairman of Qualtrics, an experience management company he founded with his father in 2002. He is the chairman of Smith Entertainment Group and the owner of the NBA's Utah Jazz, having purchased the team in 2020. He is also the owner of the NHL's Utah Mammoth franchise. He grew Qualtrics from a basement startup into a major enterprise software company, selling it to SAP for $8 billion in 2019 before later taking it public in 2021.
“When Ryan Smith sold Qualtrics, I think he made about a billion dollars after 20 years or so. And I believe that billion, most of it went back into the Jazz and it has quadrupled.”
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