Knock down obstacles

When Tony DiBenedetto was 19, he didn't even know what an entrepreneur was.

But he was intrigued by the concept when a friend started a business importing Brazilian art to Tallahassee during college. Plus, he figured owning a business was the only way to accumulate enough wealth to own his favorite baseball team: the New York Yankees.

Today, DiBenedetto is one of the most celebrated executives in Tampa. The company he founded in 1998, Tribridge, has grown to $170 million in revenue in 2016. The company's market share in cloud computing software and services, along with its top-tier work integrating Microsoft Dynamics, catapulted it to the national stage in recent years. That effort culminated in a July acquisition, when DXC Technology, a $7.6 billion publicly traded IT services company, bought Tribridge. The company is now called Tribridge, a DXC Technology Co.