The Most Creative People in Business 2021

100 Best Workplaces for Innovators
These companies are enabling the visionaries—and great business leaps—of the future.

The Recommender
A stylish stapler, a simple planner, and other back-to-the-office pick-me-ups that feel perfect for this moment.

Innovation by Design
Jeanne Gang’s groundbreaking decade, plus Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising, a Fender guitar, Nike Go FlyEase, and a live subway map.

Seeing Things
Neurologist Sheila Nirenberg has figured out how to restore sight to some patients, sparking tension between the worlds of private funding and academia.

Twitter’s New Growing Pains
Chief design officer Dantley Davis is pushing for changes that are challenging the company both inside and out.

Planet Airbnb
COVID-19 changed the travel industry overnight. Here’s how Airbnb is preparing to conquer the reopened world.

World-Changing Ideas
This year’s honorees include a cleaner freight train, an automated beehive, a way to recycle fabric, and other bold, new technologies.

Exit Strategy
A map to navigate the new world (aka your domicile).

The Recommender
Tips, tricks, and smart purchases to help you sleep well and seize the day.

SECRETS OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE
Some of the most accomplished leaders in tech, retail, science, journalism, and more share their tips for getting things done, even during this roller-coaster year.

Better Business
Now is the perfect time for companies to move beyond “woke capitalism” and actually change their behavior.

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A Surrealist chess set designed by photographer Man Ray, colorful jugs, and other things Fast Company is loving this month.

Exit Strategy
Introducing our inaugural “Six Under Six” list, showcasing the young innovators rapidly shaping our future, for better or worse..

Creative Forces
Our annual Most Creative People in Business list highlights the year’s most impressive designers, entertainers, CEOs, and more.

Ideas Welcome
The 100 companies featured on our Best Workplaces for Innovators list encourage, develop, and reward inventive thinkers..

The Recommender
A design-forward water bottle from Hay, classic summer sandals, and other recommendations from the Fast Company community.

Paying It Forward
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman (right) is practicing a more inclusive capitalism...

The Recommender
A colorful, minimalist vase; a CBD-infused sparkling water; and a smart ukulele make up our favorite products for spring.

Exit Strategy
READY OR NOT, HERE IT COMES 
5G will arrive before we know it. Are you prepared? Take this quiz to find out.

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Smart Cities Pittsburgh’s pivot from Rust Belt town to tech hotbed.

Master Class This designer makes museums mesmerizing.

Data Dive Fashion resale apps are trending.

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Something's brewing: Colorado-based craft beer outfit New Belgium is inspiring capitalist reformers with its employeeowned
business model. 

Challenging the Winners Author Anand Giridharadas is questioning long-held beliefs about philanthropy and do-good business. Plutocrats are listening.

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Creative Conversation Mike Judge on the end of Silicon Valley—and the very real, very entertaining place that inspired it all.

It Never Gets Old Grey Group CEO Michael Houston on his love of Pop-Tarts.

Google on the Brain The tech behemoth’s worldshaking quest for AI supremacy.

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The Softer Side of Hardware An exclusive look inside Google’s Design Lab, where VP Ivy Ross (left) leads the effort to make
beautiful, touchable tech. 

Atlanta Opportunity Black entrepreneurs, including Paul Judge
of TechSquare Labs (below, left), are building a tech-startup scene down south.

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Michelle Pfeiffer Has a New Role Her safe, sustainable perfumes are challenging the luxury fragrance industry.

If Startup Founders Told the Truth The honest pitch deck they don’t want you to see.

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What Would J.J. Do? J.J. Abrams is a content-producing machine. Here’s why whoever signs his company, Bad Robot—which he runs with his wife, Katie McGrath (bottom left)— could dominate Hollywood.

Amazon’s Top Employer How HR chief Beth Galetti approaches the management of the company’s swelling workforce.

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Target’s in-house advantage The retailer’s private brands are thriving.

The Trust Business Truepic is helping us believe what we see.

enter the super app Why Meituan and Grab top our list and much and more...

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Master Class Match Group CEO Mandy Ginsberg on helping all sorts of people find their person.

Building Blocks What’s behind (and below) Hudson Yards, NYC’s built-from-scratch neighborhood and much more...

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Millennial Leaders: The Oldest millennials are approaching their forties. Here's how they're managing their organizations 

Up close with Farfetch: Fresh off its IPO, the e-commerce giant's founder, jose Neves talks the future of retail and much more...

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The NFL’s Bold Play The league’s first male cheerleaders
are work place equality pioneers.

Material World a surfboard made out of wool has implications
for cars, yachts, and more.

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Melinda Gates’s Art of Investing The global leader explains why she’s betting on women and people of color with her new fund,Pivotal Ventures.

Zagat, Back on the Menu The iconic, pocket-size guidebooks
ushered in the era of crowd sourcing.Now, after a decades-long journey (and being owned by Google), they’re being revived again. An oral history. BY BEN PAYNTER

In this issue:

LinkedIn shows us where the top talent lives, works, and studies. BY JAY WOODRUFF

Navy veteran Deja Baker’s unconventional career journey.
BY BURT HELM 

Artificial intelligence is transforming the talent pools of major companies. BY AUSTIN CARR and much more...

In this issue:

No. 10: Rethinking ride sharing Anthony Tan has morphed Uber
competitor Grab into a multipurpose sharing platform.

No. 14: Netflix’s audience whisperer Chris Jaffe finds innovative ways to keep 125 million subscribers hooked and much more...

In this issue:

A MODEST PROPOSAL: Luxury fashion startup the Modist is tapping into a global market for full-coverage, yet trendy, clothing. By Claire Dodson

PEPSICO'S FRESH START(UP): The massive snack corporation
went lean to develop a new water bottle and flavor-pod system. By Katharine Schwab and much more...

In this issue:

Top 50 Most innovative companies in business: From Apple and patagonia to spaceX and pinterest, 50 enterprises driving disruption today

Top 10 lists: The most innovative companies in 36 sectors, from AI to wellness

The Recommender: From rope art to a sound bath, what the dast company community is loving right now and much more...

In this issue:

A Dinner Time Debate: 

Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur Dan Barber locks horns with tech veteran Kimbal Musk over how best to feed the world while saving the planet.

Grassroots Opportunities: Emerging cannabis-industry leaders explain how diversity and cutting-edge science can be baked into any enterprise and much more...

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Jack Antonoff - Producer,Musician and Songwriter

Bernard Tyson - Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente

Dona Sarkar - Head of windows insider program, Microsoft and much more...

TECH + CULTURE ISSUE : Kevin Durant Builds An Empire, Stella McCartney Cleans Up The Planet, Netflix Clashes With Disney, Can Social Media Defuse ISIS?  | Why Levi’s
Loves Silicon Valley...

THE GREAT AI WAR OF 2018 - AMAZON , APPLE , FACEBOOK , GOOGLE , IBM, MICROSOFT & MORE.

Where Apple and Google fall short Why the most exciting smartphone innovations aren’t coming from the usual suspects.

Bumble takes aim at LinkedIn The fast-growing dating app lets users swipe through potential matches—both personal and professional.

Blockchain transforms the UN New technology upends the system for dispensing essential supplies to refugees.

After Vampire Weekend Four ways music-maker Rostam Batmanglij inspires ingenuity from A-list artists.

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SHONDA RHIMES Sparks a Movement, Why AIRBNB BUZZFEED CASPER NETFLIX Can’t Be Ignored, 25 BRANDS THAT MATTER NOW and much more...

NO FEAR - Elon Musk is the biggest risk-taker in business. Will merging Tesla and SolarCity be his undoing?...

Why Netflix Envies YouTube.

A New Reality at Facebook.

Fitbit We  Work Tumblr Nike Chipotle Droga5 and More...

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