How Nike's CEO Shook Up the Shoe Industry Nike's Mark Parker brings together extreme talents, whether they're basketball stars, tattooists, or designers obsessed with shoes.
Updated Mon May 21, 2012
I Want My Twitter TV! It is 75 minutes before showtime at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, and the Justin Bieber Watch is in full effect. (OMG!) On the fourth-floor pool deck of the hotel that overlooks the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, a motley collection of MTV marketing partners, entertainment executives, and other shiny Angelenos are enjoying cocktails and squinting at the open-air red carpet.
Updated Fri May 18, 2012
A Former Facebooker Forges A New Path (App) After Facebook, Dave Morin continues to shape the way we share moments with friends.
Updated Mon Apr 23, 2012
Cleveland: Venture-Capital Mind-Set [Fast Cities 2010] "We were staring into the abyss," says Baiju Shah, CEO of BioEnterprise, recalling the 2000 recession that had slowed Cleveland's economy to a crawl. "It wasn't just a cyclical thing; there were global forces at work that were going to leave us behind for good." As the city bled jobs in traditional sectors, such as manufacturing, committed competitors -- including Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, and Summa Health System -- banded together to save the city and themselves.
Updated Mon Apr 16, 2012
"Boy CEO" Mark Zuckerberg's Two Smartest Projects Were Growing Facebook And Growing Up Mark Zuckerberg, oft-parodied young CEO, didn't build the most important company of the Internet era by accident. How he fashioned Facebook--and himself--for success.
Updated Mon Mar 26, 2012
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Hacker. Dropout. CEO. When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?
Updated Wed Feb 1, 2012
Chris Hughes's Jumo And GOOD Join Forces GOOD, publisher of the magazine by the same name and the social action platform is acquiring Jumo, the cause-oriented social network created by Facebook and team Barack Obama veteran Chris Hughes.
Updated Wed Aug 17, 2011
Re-Booting Valentine’s Day for Good Three social entrepreneurs decide to make the world a more generous place in real time. Will you help?
Updated Mon Feb 14, 2011
Facebook Vet Launches Jumo, a Social Hub for Do-Gooders At last check, Chris Hughes was spearheading Obama's online campaign. Today he officially returns to the scrappy startup life with his new charity hub, funded in part with help from "some of the early Facebook guys."
Tue Nov 30, 2010
The Facebook Drama "The Social Network" Won't Show You The Social Network is not the feel-good movie of the year--certainly not for Mark Zuckerberg, or for the dozens of exceptionally talented men and women who created Facebook. They were, and are, brilliant, hardworking and imaginative people who managed to survive the uniquely fraught early moments of an online start-up. It was a swirl alright, but not the way the film would have you think.
Wed Oct 6, 2010
How Adam Carolla Became a Podcast Superstar Radio-and-TV personality Adam Carolla stumbled into podcasting and immediately became its No. 1 star. Now he's launching his own broadcasting network. Inside the messy birth of a new medium.
Thu Apr 1, 2010
Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Is Back in the Startup Business With Jumo.com Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder, and the engine behind the MyBarackObama community organization site, is back in the start-up business.
Thu Mar 18, 2010
Remembering Never to Forget For all its shiny green future, Volkswagen has a dark and complicated past. Nowhere do those two disparate sides present themselves more starkly than in the company's headquarters of Wolfsburg, Germany. It's a one-horse town of 120,000. The factory employs some 48,000, and more than 2 million a year visit the 61-acre Autostadt, a celebration of all things VW, with pavilions, exhibits, even a mini track where kids can become kinder-licensed and drive wee electric Beetles.
Mon Feb 1, 2010
The Germans Are Coming: Volkswagen's Drive to Succeed in America Volkswagen wants to be the world's No. 1 carmaker, but first the company has to win over America.
Thu Jan 14, 2010
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