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What Does Innovation Look Like In 2019 And Beyond?

What does innovation look like in 2019 and beyond? The speakers at the fourth annual fast company innovation festival weigh in.

20 Predictions For The Next 20 Years

Early presidential polls have tended to be wildly off-target. There’s no reason to think this time is different.

Elon Musk Powers Up: Inside Tesla's $5 Billion Gigafactory

Elon Musk, the CEO who made electric cars sexy and commercial space travel a reality, is venturing into the messy battery business. Here’s why it’s his boldest bet yet.

A Newsletter Giving Feminism A Fresh Voice

With their online newsletter Lenny, Girls collaborators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner are giving feminism a fresh voice.

How Ipsy Is Reinventing The Cosmetics Industry

YouTube star and Ipsy founder Michelle Phan is at the forefront of the social reinvention of the $39 billion cosmetics industry.

Microsoft's Radical Bet On A New Type Of Design Thinking

How studying underserved communities is helping the tech giant create better products.

How To Build an Army of Social Entrepreneurs

After selling half his company, Toms founder Blake Mycoskie is doubling down on social entrepreneurship.

Could A Biometric Lock Be the Key to Gun Safety?

Could a biometric lock be the key to gun safety?

How BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company

Many NBA big men believe they are cursed by the very trait that brought them glory. And the emerging science around extreme size suggests they’re right.

How Taco Bell Nailed Its Innovative New Quesalupa

For combining corn, beans, meat, and cheese into genius.

How Hudl's Mobile-Video Software Is Transforming Sports

Its power is derived from custom and deference. How old-fashioned.

Donald Glover: Hollywood's Most In-Demand Polymaths

Donald Glover Actor, musician, writer, producer Donald Glover is tired. Like, bone-tired—the kind of tired that crushes his normally bright voice into a monotonous murmur.

For Changing The Way We Look At Wearables

Laurya MorrisDesign lead, Specatcles, Snap 

The Dynamic Duo Behind Broad City On How To Provoke the Right Reaction

Broad City creators and stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer talk about finding a common voice - and always pushing the limits.

Single? It's Not You, It's Your City

The city you choose to work in could have far more impact on your future than whatever company you’d be joining.

Amazon's Top Employer - Beth Galetti

As Amazon’s workforce swells, so do its challenges. Here’s why the company has entrusted its complex HR network to an electrical engineer.

Everlane's Plastic-Free Promise

The fashion industry is awash in carbon-intensive plastic. As a climate crisis looms, upstart apparel brand Everlane is weaning itself off new synthetics entirely. Spoiler: It’s not easy.

ABC Entertainment President On Diversity and Competing With Netflix

After an unexpectedly high-profile year abc entertainment president channing dungey speaks about diversity, streaming and keeping the peace betweens how runners and executives.

A Clear Solution

Clear will speed you throughlong lines at the stadium orairport. All it costs is $179 and your personal biometric data.

Uber's New CEO Shares His Immigrant Experience

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's Iranian roots are key to understanding his approach to business.

M. Night Shyamalan Reveals A New Twist

With the release of Glass, the the installment in his alt-superhero series M. Night Shyamalan talks about building up his own superhuman defenses

The Most Powerful Person In Silicon Valley

Billionaire Masayoshi Son has a vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control how we live—and he’s spending hundreds of billions of dollars to realize it. Are you ready to live in Masa World?

The Last (Plastic) Straw

How Starbucks came up with an alternative to single-use straws

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Reveals His Plans To Woo Artists and Beat Apple

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is betting that he can sell music fans and artists worldwide on his vision for the future of the business. Only Amazon, Apple, and Google stand in his way.

The Thawing Of McDonald's

Using fresh— never frozen— beef in its quarter pounders is just one part of a massive transformation the company is undergoing in the face of changing consumer tastes and competition. But it’s definitely the most complicated.

How Fitbit Became The Next Big Thing In Corporate Wellness

As fitness trackers make inroads with employee wellness programs, is the new requirement to climbing the corporate ladder that you count all the steps?

Zac Posen Is Ready for His Close-Up

Fashion designer and Brooks Brothers creative director Zac Posen talks about staying original while building his globe-spanning brand.

How Nielsen Plans To Solve The Audience Puzzle

As the television landscape fractures, figuring out who is watching what has never been more difficult or important.

A Bitcoin Boost For Podcasters

Cast box CEO Renee Wang has a new idea for funding digital content creators.

Melinda Gates's Art Of Investing

The Philanthropist and Investor is tackling sexism in Silicon Valley.