Entertainment
Fast Company
How 'Business for Good' Went Bad
IT MAY SEEM LIKE THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SINGLE-HANDEDLY PULLED THE PLUG ON STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM, BUT IN REALITY, IT WAS SPUTTERING FOR YEARS.
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Summer 2025
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WORLD CHANGING IDEAS 2025
A PERUVIAN CEMENT COMPANY INVENTS A NEW KIND OF SIDEWALK TO HELP GUIDE THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED. A NEW HEALTHTECH PLATFORM LEVERAGES AI TO ELIMINATE INEFFECTIVE COUNTERFEIT ANTIBIOTICS FROM GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS. AND COSTCO CEO RON VACHRIS TAKES HONORS AS THE INAUGURAL VISIONARY OF THE YEAR. THOSE ARE JUST THREE OF THIS YEAR'S 100 WORLD-CHANGING IDEAS WINNERS.
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Summer 2025
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STATE THE OF UNIONS
LIZ SHULER, PRESIDENT OF THE AFL-CIO, SAT DOWN WITH FAST COMPANY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BRENDAN VAUGHAN TO DISCUSS HOW THE LARGEST FEDERATION OF UNIONS IN THE UNITED STATES IS RESPONDING TO AN ADMINISTRATION THAT IS HOSTILE TOWARD LABOR.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
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WTF IS QUANTUM
YOU'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT IT. DO YOU TRULY UNDERSTAND IT? WE'RE GUESSING NO. ONCE AND FOR ALL, A CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE PRIMER ON THE NEXT COMPUTING REVOLUTION.
9 min |
Summer 2025
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JUST REWARDS
BILT, THE STARTUP THAT OFFERS LOYALTY PROGRAM POINTS FOR PAYING YOUR RENT, IS BUILDING A $1-BILLION-A-YEAR BUSINESS BY BECOMING THE REWARDS PROGRAM FOR LIFE'S EVERY EXPENSE.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
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Foundr Mentality
GRINDR CEO GEORGE ARISON IS USING AI TO TRANSFORM THE APP, MAKING AN UNEXPECTED PIVOT INTO TELEMEDICINE, AND TAKING MANAGEMENT INSPIRATION FROM ELON MUSK.
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Summer 2025
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The Chatbot Cure
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST BECKY KENNEDY HAS BECOME THE PARENTING GURU FOR THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA. CAN AI TAKE HER TEACHINGS EVEN FURTHER?
6 min |
Summer 2025
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THE PRICE OF LIFE
GILEAD SCIENCES, THE LEADER IN HIV MEDICATIONS, HAS DEVELOPED A NEW DRUG THAT COULD EFFECTIVELY END THE DISEASE. BUT NOT ALL PATIENTS SEE THE COMPANY AS A HERO.
9 min |
Summer 2025
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Entangled Publishing
FOR FUELING THE ROMANTASY FRENZY
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Spring 2025
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Homecourt For adding luxury to sustainable, nontoxic household products
CLEANING YOUR home is hardly a sexy undertaking. But when you’re obsessed with design, cleanliness, and things smelling good, it can be joyful.
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Spring 2025
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TOP TEN
“I WOULDN'T WANT TO COME HERE, TO BE honest” is not the first tourism slogan that would occur to most marketers.
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Spring 2025
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HistoSonics
FOR CHANNELING SOUND TO DESTROY LIVER TUMORS
1 min |
Spring 2025
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Zero Foodprint For funding "collective regeneration"
EVERY DAY, Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars on food, yet very little of that money directly changes how food is grown.
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Spring 2025
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Iceye
FOR SEEING THE WORLD, EVEN THROUGH CLOUDS
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Spring 2025
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Duolingo
For finding a common language
10+ min |
Spring 2025
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WNBA For posting up when it mattered
WHEN BASKETBALL STARS CAITLIN Clark, Angel Reese, and Cameron Brink rolled up to the Brooklyn Academy of Music last April for the 2024 WNBA draft, they signaled the arrival of a new generation of talent—and the league’s cultural ascendance.
3 min |
Spring 2025
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Port of Portland
For creating a truly local airport
2 min |
Spring 2025
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Crunchyroll For turning anime fandom into an ecosystem
BEING A FAN OF ANIME IN THE aughts meant you either had to know Japanese or rely on the kindness of internet strangers, who would up- load their own subtitled versions of popular series to video-hosting site Crunchyroll, which launched in 2006. In the nearly two decades since, anime has crossed from subculture into mainstream pop culture among Western audiences, with Crunchyroll leading the way.
3 min |
Spring 2025
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Athletic Brewing
Just days before Athletic Brewing's newest busy season begins—Dry January—its primary brewery, in Milford, Connecticut, is shifting into overdrive, working to fill a 30-million-can stockpile to meet the coming month's nationwide surge in demand. A majority of these six-packs will vanish from shelves within the first two weeks of 2025.
9 min |
Spring 2025
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Anysphere
FOR OFFERING DEVELOPERS A CODING PARTNER THAT CAN SEE THE BIG PICTURE
1 min |
Spring 2025
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Robinhood
For helping Sherwood Forest help itself
7 min |
Spring 2025
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Bluesky
For freeing social media from the algorithm
6 min |
Spring 2025
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Rocket Lab For keeping the space race competitive
YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW IT FROM the parade of SpaceX and Blue Origin headlines, but there's another player in the space-launch business—one that's considerably less flashy than the Elon Musk–and Jeff Bezos–owned companies, but gaining fast.
3 min |
Spring 2025
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Wonder
FOR RETHINKING HOW FOOD DELIVERY WORKS, FROM THE BOTTOM UP
1 min |
Spring 2025
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Liquid Death
FOR GIVING THE BRAND COLLAB NEW LIFE
1 min |
Spring 2025
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Notion
FOR ORGANIZING THE TASK OF ORGANIZING
1 min |
Spring 2025
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Chainalysis
For bringing transparency to the crypto industry
5 min |
Spring 2025
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FX
For serving up nourishing, original TV in an era of ultra-processed entertainment
7 min |
Spring 2025
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Essilor Luxottica
FOR MAKING SMART GLASSES COOL
1 min |
Spring 2025
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WAYMO
For steering robotaxis into the fast lane
5 min |