1. Warby Parker
For building the first great made-on-the-internet brand.
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2. Apple
For creating magic with minutiae.
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3. Alibaba
For helping consumers save, spend, and be entertained.
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4. Google
For making the hit laptop nobody saw coming.
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5. Instagram
For its beautiful relationship with the fashion industry.
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6. Color of Change
For creating a civil rights group for the 21st century.
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7. HBO
For making itself the belle of the streaming-tv ball.
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8. Virgin
For perfecting customer service for an innovative clientele.
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9. IndiGo
For making it feel good to fly cheap.
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10. Slack
For slaying interoffice email.
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11. Houzz
For being a one-stop design shop.
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12. Catapult
For taking the guesswork out of injury prevention.
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13. InVenture
For introducing trust to an unsteady economy.
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14. Line
For marrying messaging with personality—and a business model.
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15. WeWork
For being the Ace Hotel of coworking.
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16. Gilead Sciences
For developing lifesaving drugs at the speed of need.
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17. Tesla
For pushing the limits of affordable battery power.
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18. Toyota
For leading the way in fuel-cell technology.
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19. Cree
For its speed and ingenuity in becoming the leading consumer LED brand in the U.S.
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20. Stripe
For becoming the go-to payments provider.
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21. Next Big Sound
For making music out of musicians’ data.
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22. DJI
For creating the gopro of the sky.
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23. Eataly
For building a grocery empire that looks nothing like a grocery store.
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24. Fuhu
For serving kids in ways the tablet giants don’t.
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25. Apricot Forest
For seeking the cure to what ails Chinese health care.
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26. E La Carte
For selling restaurants on an upselling machine.
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27. Panera Bread
For using tech to improve everything—including the food.
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28. General Assembly
For graduating to next-gen educator.
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29. Ammunition
For leaving its mark in the most visible places.
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30. Netflix
For making the content it knows (with data!) we’ll all love.
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31. Made In Kigali
For helping to build an industry from scratch.
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32. Soundcloud
For creating an audio empire.
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33. Kickstarter
For fostering every form of creativity.
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34. Wandoujia
For solving China’s mobile-app problem.
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35. Gumroad
For making e-commerce as painless as tweeting.
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36. Westfield Labs
For giving the mall a high-tech makeover.
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37. Anyperk
For bringing facebook-style benefits to the masses.
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38. American Giant
For breathing new life into U.S. apparel manufacturing.
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39. Revolution Foods
For selling good, cheap food to children who need it most.
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40. Ikea
For delighting customers at each and every turn.
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41. Samsung Electronics
For bringing Internet intelligence to more things.
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42. Algramo
For filling an ignored food gap.
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43. 72andSunny
For reflecting our modern culture back at us.
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44. Silver Crystal Sports
For outfitting fans the minute they want something.
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45. Anki
For using AI to reinvent slot cars.
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46. Perfint Healthcare
For attacking cancer with robotics.
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47. Omada Health
For improving health through coaching.
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48. ElMindA
For changing the way we see our brains.
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49. Mark43
For putting cops in the cloud.
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