How one family built $8 billion startup far from Silicon Valley

As Qualtrics grew, Ryan eventually convinced his brother to quit a product director’s job at Google and run the technical side of things. Jared, now 43, is the company’s president. The Smith patriarch -- a cancer survivor -- came up with the idea to serve his fellow academics, while Jared wrote the code and Ryan sold it to customers.

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