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Leaders In Motion
Since its inception in 1995, Fast Company has sought to portray business and businesspeople in surprising ways. Our focus on innovation—as opposed to mere scale or power—allows us to look beyond CEOs to highlight a diverse set of visionaries, such as
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The Slow Death Of Open Offices
First, you tear down the walls and dispense with the soulless cubicles. Then you put everyone at long tables, shoulder to shoulder, so that they can talk more easily. Ditch any remaining private offices, which only enforce the idea that some people a
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Everybody, Listen Up
If you’re not listening to a podcast these days, chances are the person next to you is. Last year was a watershed for the medium, with creators beginning to generate significant revenue in myriad ways. A few years ago, a popular podcast would maybe g
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Night Vision
Few filmmakers have experienced as wide a range of praise and criticism as M. Night Shyamalan. After finding fame at age 29 with the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, followed by Unbreakable and Signs, he put out a series of misses, culminating in 2013’s
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West World
Next month, a daring, $20 billion development officially opens in a previously inhospitable and uninhabitable area on Manhattan’s Far West Side. Spearheaded by real estate firm Related Companies (and partly paid for by the city), the 28-acre Hudson Y
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The Netflix Shuffle
Last summer, Netflix offered Hollywood something unexpected: a rare peek inside the highly secretive streaming service. The company rented out a huge L.A. sound stage and invited each of the major talent agencies to come one by one and watch presenta
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Butterfly Effect
Until recently, if you needed an ultra-sound scan, it meant a trip to a hospital or a specialist’s office with an expensive, stand-alone machine. That’s changing, thanks to a new device called the Butterfly iQ—a $2,000 smartphone-connected imager tha
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Match Point
RARE IS THE PLANE RIDE THAT DOESN’T END WITH Mandy Ginsberg’s seatmates telling her about their love lives. Since taking the helm of Match Group in January 2018, Ginsberg has overseen a robust dating-app portfolio that includes Tinder, OkCupid, and P
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Small But Mighty
This powerful, ultracompact speaker from French audio company Devialet delivers a clear sound up to 95 decibels and deep bass from a pair of vibrating drivers. The unique spherical design of the Phantom Reactor makes it a discreet but attractive addi
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My Operating System Forerunner Ventures’ Kirsten Green
What’s your best habit? I’m deliberate. I always have a plan—organization (1) is important to me. Not only mentally but physically as well. I throw out everything old, and I don’t keep anything I don’t need. What’s your worst habit? Going online befo
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PICTURING Innovation
At a time when lack of faith in INSTITUTIONS—GOVERNMENT, CORPORATIONS, AND, YES, THE NEWS MEDIA—SEEMS TO BE AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH, BUSINESS AND THOUGHT LEADERS WHO TOOK THE STAGE AT FAST COMPANY’S ANNUAL INNOVATION FESTIVAL CHAMPIONED THE IMPORTANCE OF
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Green Means Go
DELAYED THE FLIGHT FROM OTTAWA TO Newfoundland by eight hours, and the mood on board Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton’s chartered Embraer Legacy 450 on the evening of October 16 was celebratory but cautious. At midnight that night, Canada would become
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Just doing It
On September 3, 2018, at 2:20 p.m., an image appeared on Instagram: a tightly cropped black-and-white close-up of a face, eyebrows, and chin bordering a resolute gaze, and the message “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Y
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The Most Powerful Person In Silicon Valley
It’s a bright September morning in San Carlos, California, and Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank, is throwing me off schedule. I’d come, as he had, to meet with the people he’s tapped to run the Vision Fund, his $100 billion bet on the future of, w
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Masa Son’s First Wild Internet Ride
“Masa wants to meet with you. Can you get on a plane tomorrow?” For many, the call to Tokyo comes out of the blue, as it did with Stefan Heck, founder and CEO of Nauto, a startup that builds AI-powered cameras to enable self-driving vehicles. Heck ha

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