Our five winning bloggers are men and women of their word.

Not only do they post clever content and marvelous musings, they wield virtual power at their fingertips — and use it for good.

Plus, these keyboard kings and queens include the “first family” of Utah Valley’s blogosphere — Phil Windley, Paul Allen and Kelly King Anderson.

“I started blogging because of you,” Allen said to Windley at our August photo shoot.

“And I started blogging because of you,” Anderson said to Allen.

To which Windley concluded: “So that makes you my blogging granddaughter!”

Talk about a blog roll.

It should have been a sure thing.
After all, Scale Eight, a Silicon Valley-based provider of scaleable storage software technologies, certainly had the resume. During its four-year run, the company raised more than $60 million in venture capital; had more than 200 employees; had offices in San Francisco, New York, Virginia, Tokyo and London; had contracts with multibillion-dollar companies like Microsoft, Viacom, and Fujitsu; and had Red Herring magazine name it one of the “50 privately-held companies most likely to change the world.”
But 10 years later, Scale Eight is a shoulda, coulda, woulda.

It’s back — in all of its growing green glory. The UV50 — which features the county’s 25 Fastest-Growing Companies (measured by percentage growth over a three-year period), 15 Top Revenue Companies and 10 Startups to Watch — has enjoyed another year of record-ranking success.

Meet all 50 winners, and go inside seven companies that share how they did it — in their own words.

Don’t call Jessica Devenish “the boss.” She doesn’t like it. (With the exception of this article title, of course.) But really, the CEO of Checknet, a collections agency in Provo, is big on team — small on titles. Perhaps it’s because she has so many of them. Devenish is a wife, mom, CEO, sister, daughter, cowgirl, friend, chauffeur, mentor, hunter, networker and motivator. Truly, she changes hats with the best of them. It’s a wonder she never has hat hair.