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Fast Company Magazine

How Matt Mochary became the preeminent tech-world CEO coach

The coach to the CEOs of Coinbase, Brex, and many others is now taking the field by building his ideas into software.

How Matt Mochary became the preeminent tech-world CEO coach

Most Innovative Companies

Most Innovative Companies 2023: Use these surprising tips to write a winning MIC application

Five fresh insights to help you craft a compelling application for Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies that’ll get noticed.

Most Innovative Companies 2023: Use these surprising tips to write a winning MIC application

Fast Company Magazine

How the ‘Why not both?’ meme explains everything from kids’ career choices to the return to work

Featuring YouTube star Mark Rober, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and Best Workplaces for Innovators, and more.

How the ‘Why not both?’ meme explains everything from kids’ career choices to the return to work

Fast Company Magazine

Meet the lawyer who stood between Big Tech and your facial recognition data

In the last two-plus years, Jay Edelson’s firm has won more than $3 billion in settlements and verdicts.

Meet the lawyer who stood between Big Tech and your facial recognition data

Four reasons to apply for Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2023

The time is now to tell your story to ‘Fast Company’ and stand out from your competition as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Four reasons to apply for Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2023

1,053 world changing ideas to inspire a perfect day

Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas features 39 winners, 350 finalists, and 664 honorable mentions doing great things to improve society.

1,053 world changing ideas to inspire a perfect day

Fast Company Magazine

The 10 most innovative joint ventures of 2022

The best business pairings, whether one-off collaborations or new companies, can deliver big results, as in the case of LEAF Coalition, Adidas and Allbirds, and eight more.

The 10 most innovative joint ventures of 2022

Fast Company Magazine

This swashbuckling $3 billion company is single-handedly trying to fix the supply-chain crisis

Flexport brings digital savvy and a get-it-done attitude on behalf of its customers to solve the bottlenecks keeping your stuff from getting to you faster.

This swashbuckling $3 billion company is single-handedly trying to fix the supply-chain crisis

Fast Company Magazine

The 10 most innovative companies in North America in 2022

These companies, including AB InBev, Flagship Pioneering, ChargePoint, and Green Mountain Power, reflect the best values of their region: brilliant problem-solving and an irrepressible spirit.

The 10 most innovative companies in North America in 2022

Fast Company Magazine

The 10 most innovative logistics companies of 2022

Supply-chain challenges persist, but companies such as Flexport, Zipline, Controlant, and Saltbox are doing their part to ameliorate problems for their customers.

The 10 most innovative logistics companies of 2022

Cutting back on alcohol? These no- and low-alcohol spirits will keep things interesting

I tried a bevy of nonalcoholic and low-alcohol drinks, from apertifs and bourbons to mushroom-infused tonics. These were my favorites.

Cutting back on alcohol? These no- and low-alcohol spirits will keep things interesting

Fast Company Magazine

The $3,000 bed everyone in Silicon Valley is raving about

More than two dozen tech founders have contributed to Eight Sleep’s more than $150 million in funding, because they love its bed that offers temperature control, sleep data, and gamification.

The $3,000 bed everyone in Silicon Valley is raving about

How companies could quietly put their values to work and transform politics

Call it corporate redistricting: Companies could move employees to where they could redraw electoral maps—and it’s more likely to benefit Democrats.

How companies could quietly put their values to work and transform politics

Fast Company Magazine

How one woman helped force Facebook to create a policy for dealing with militia groups

Katie Paul and the Tech Transparency Project use ethnographic research to find and expose extremists on social media.

How one woman helped force Facebook to create a policy for dealing with militia groups

Fast Company Magazine

Here’s what happens when a venture capitalist backs women founders

Megan Bent’s Harbinger Ventures also makes sure that each founder owns a piece of the overall fund.

Here’s what happens when a venture capitalist backs women founders

Why the defense industry could be the most transformative market for startups

There are bureaucratic hurdles, but with some forethought and preparation, startups have a chance to adapt and thrive while working with the Pentagon.

Why the defense industry could be the most transformative market for startups

Fast Company Magazine

15 worker groups taking on the tech world

Tech companies have accumulated unfathomable power in the past three decades. These worker groups are fighting for their piece.

15 worker groups taking on the tech world

Basecamp banned social and political conversations at work. Here’s what it should have done

Companies from Levi’s to Oatly to Bumble offer a model for how any company, tech or otherwise, can meaningfully channel employee fervor into advocacy.

Basecamp banned social and political conversations at work. Here’s what it should have done

Meet Plant-Ag, the $9 billion startup that will let you trace your food from field to plate

The ambitious company believes our food system is broken, and the only way to fix it is to start over.

Meet Plant-Ag, the $9 billion startup that will let you trace your food from field to plate

The 6 best jokes from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Golden Globes monologue

The dynamic duo is back again, hosting the loosest award show of the season. Here are the jokes you’re not gonna want to miss from the opening.

The 6 best jokes from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Golden Globes monologue

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How three visionaries are imagining sustainable, more democratic dwellings

An economic slowdown could be the reset Silicon Valley needs

How to know if you’re being stalked with an AirTag

News

Steve Case: Silicon Valley’s brain drain is bringing innovation back to small cities

Need space to take a Zoom call? Prepare to pay up in these 10 most expensive cities for co-working

The Dow slides to its lowest point since 2020, as recession fears grow

Co.Design

Fast Company Magazine

Why corporate America broke up with design

How disability is informing better products—and better organizations

Could a Heineken ad from 2017 actually hold the key to reducing partisan animosity?

Work Life

Beyond burnout: Why are so many people unhappy at work these days?

What to do if someone gaslights you at work

5 ways to boost employee morale after a brutal round of layoffs