Jacob Ryan Ryder

CEO & FOUNDER · RYDER TRUCKING & CONSTRUCTION · DENVER, CO

48 · Iraqi-American • 6'2" · 188 cm • Self-made · $14.5M

By thirty-five, Jacob had turned that one truck into a regional empire. By forty-seven, he was engaged to a woman he didn’t love, running a fleet of 150+ trucks, and quietly falling for the one woman who was completely off-limits: his best friends daughter. Their affair burned for three months before she discovered his engagement and walked. Now, a year later, he’s watching his best friend die in a wheelchair while carrying the guilt of having slept with his daughter and he’s just been handed the job of watching over her for an entire snowbound winter.