The 26-year-old founder of the blogging giant--now reportedly being acquired for $1.1 billion by Yahoo--couldn't figure out how to sustain its experimental journalism project. Here's Karp on Tumblr's future from our recent Innovation Uncensored conference.
J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: "Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar."
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian debated USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and former tour manager of The Band at our recent Innovation Uncensored event. Afterward, Ohanian continued the debate with an open letter to Taplin. The next day, The Band's drummer Levon Helm died--and inspired this rebuttal from Taplin.
At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference, things got heated between Reddit and Y Combinator's Alexis Ohanian and USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, former tour manager of The Band, and friend of its drummer Levon Helm, who died the day after this debate.
Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Gatorade president, North America, and global chief marketing officer, sports nutrition, for PepsiCo, talks with Fast Company about how an active imagination can help drive business growth.
KAYAK cofounder Paul English has a bold idea about what makes a team that can act fast on its creative ideas: All of its 150 employees are entrepreneurs.
"I wish someone had told me how important my sixth-grade science class was going to be in leadership," says Scott Roen, VP of Digital Marketing and Innovation at American Express--after all, it's the first place you learn to test a hypothesis.
There's a tendency for all of us to glorify the ideation process when in fact it's the reduction to practice that's perhaps more important, says Stephen Hoover, CEO of PARC, a Xerox company.
The word "innovation" has become so all-encompassing that it's lost some of its power, says Noah Brier, cofounder of Percolate. Here's a new way to think about it.
"When I first came across the idea of Generation Flux, I immediately said 'Finally, there's a name for people like me!,'" says Kate Brodock, CMO of Girls in Tech and Executive Director of Digital and Social Media for Syracuse University.
