Charles 'Chas' Bruck, 31

Chas Bruck says his family raised him to be an entrepreneur. His grandparents were entrepreneurs, and so is his dad. When he was 12, his grandmother decided she was sick of giving toys as birthday presents. So she gave them the option to buy stock instead.

When he graduated college, he worked for a year as an intern for a commercial development firm that worked on big-box retail deals out of Tucson, Ariz. “It was not the route I wanted to go,” Bruck says. He wanted to get back to Tampa and work for himself. It’s just part of his personality, he admits: “If I worked for someone they’d probably fire me in the first week.”