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Why Everyone You Know Wants You To #DeleteUber

The ride-sharing company found itself in hot water over its response to President Trump's recent travel ban.

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Kendrick Lamar Plans Your Financial Future

Kendrick Lamar teams up with Cash App and Ray Dalio to give a quick financial literacy lesson. The ad comes from PgLang, the multilingual creative collective founded by Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free.

Kendrick Lamar Plans Your Financial Future

Building Robert Schwartzman's Filmmaking Utopia

As a filmmaker himself, Robert Schwartzman was tired of distribution companies ignoring independent films, so he built his own company. He co-founded Utopia Distribution and using his love of both filmmaking and tech to support storytellers.

Building Robert Schwartzman's Filmmaking Utopia

Why Killer Mike supports the Cannabis movement

Killer Mike is one of the most outspoken supporters of the cannabis movement to build inclusivity and community. With a prison-for-you and profit-for-me mentality within the cannabis industry, rapper and activist Killer Mike teamed up with Wheelhouse Labs and Weedmaps to create a canna-friendly docuseries, Tumbleweeds.

Why Killer Mike supports the Cannabis movement

Tik Tok has a new star: And she teaches economics

Kyla Scanlon is committed to creating financial education content for her peers. She has become the go-to financial tech demystifier and amassed 119,500 TikTok followers in the process. Scanlon is a clear thinker and very creative in conveying complex economic information in an accessible and fun way.

Tik Tok has a new star: And she teaches economics

MLB turned the ‘Field of Dreams’ set into a fan experience

Fast Company’s Mark Wilson gets a behind-the-scenes look at the MLB regulation field on the preserved set of ‘Field of Dreams,’ the hit 1989 film starring Kevin Costner. The field was the recent home to the first-ever MLB game played in the state of Iowa when the Yankees played the White Sox there this month.

MLB turned the ‘Field of Dreams’ set into a fan experience

How to launch a six-figure, genderless fashion line without investors

Kingsley Gbadegesin started K.NGSLEY in 2020 because he was out of clean shirts. Since then, Gbadegesin has built the brand without investors—using only the money earned from selling his products while regularly donating portions of profits to organizations helping to house trans people, as well as various activist organizations.

How to launch a six-figure, genderless fashion line without investors

How this surfing star is making waves in sports apparel

Last year, John John Florence turned down the opportunity to partner with just about every major sports sponsor in order to launch his own brand, Florence Marine X. Florence innovated a Test Pilots program, which allows fans of the brand to sign up to test product prototypes.

How this surfing star is making waves in sports apparel

Clash of Clans' celebrates 10th anniversary in 1980

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the 'Clash of Clans' game, and parent company Supercell thought it would be fun to imagine a world where Clash came of age in the time of Pac-Man and Super Mario. The ad was created by Wieden + Kennedy. This is Fast Company's Brand hit or miss of the week.

Clash of Clans' celebrates 10th anniversary in 1980

How the NRA has obstructed gun control in the U.S.

An overwhelming majority of Americans favor common sense gun control laws. So why hasn’t Congress been able to pass meaningful reform? There are many reasons, but mostly, it’s because the gun lobby wants it that way and guns are good for business.

How the NRA has obstructed gun control in the U.S.

Stop Mosquito bites this summer with Coors Light

In the universe of marketing, there may be no more freedom for creative absurdity than there is with beer. This summer Coors Light brings you a thirst trap you didn't even know you needed. This is Fast Company's Brand hit or miss of the week.

Stop Mosquito bites this summer with Coors Light

Tech

How a ‘Fitbit for whales’ can help reshape wildlife conservation

Online abortion pill startups boom—even as they face new legal and privacy challenges

It’s no surprise that Uber and Lyft are tapping into the ad business

News

Venmo, Zelle, Visa, Mastercard, and you: The fiery fight over the future of swipe fees

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are crashing, sending Coinbase stock down, too

Strippers are the latest workers to join the union wave

Co.Design

Inside Russia’s cartoonish propaganda website made for kids

Black architects are rare. This program plans to change that

Cars need their buttons and knobs back

Work Life

Want to reach the best decision? Stop and ask yourself these questions first

3 questions interviewers hope you ask, and 3 they hope you don’t

First-gen leaders and professionals, it’s not your fault you feel like a fraud