Fast Company

Fast Company is the world’s leading progressive business media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, world changing ideas, and design. Written for, by, and about the most progressive business leaders, Fast Company inspires readers to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead conversations, and create the future of business.

FINDING THE SPARK

IN THE GRASP OF BIG TECH • FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AND OTHER MASTERS OF THE SURVEILLANCE ECONOMY HAVE BRED A VIRULENT MUTATION OF CAPITALISM.

TURNING A THREAT INTO THREAD • Adidas Terrex Parley footwear turns ocean plastics into sneaker material.

MY OPERATING SYSTEM INSTAGRAM’S HEAD OF DESIGN, IAN SPALTER • He’s the man that keeps you scrolling through your Instagram feed. The company’s head of design takes our career questionnaire.

The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies

01.–02. For pioneering transactional super apps

03 For giving every fan a courtside seat

04 For diving into the stream

05. For fixing retail one data point at a time

How Stitch Fix puts data to work • THREE TOOLS THE COMPANY CREATED OUT OF ITS OBSESSIVE INTEREST IN THE MINUTIAE OF STYLE

06. For flaunting its roots

07. For keeping it fresh

Top 10 Lists

08. For providing a more elegant way to pay

09. For rising to the top

10. For live-streaming the revolution

YOU CAN WATCH THAT ON TWITCH

11. For incubating cult brands in-house

12. For selling out

13. For fending off malware and online surveillance

14. For shaping fitness classes into must-see TV

15. For bringing AI to market

16. For helping us believe our eyes

17. For pushing its processors

18. For letting businesses build like gamers

19. For picking up the pace

20. For empowering financial apps

For finding harmony amid disruption

Top 10.

22. For encouraging admins to think like developers

23. For knowing how to chill

24. For coding magic

25. For making millennials oenophiles

26. For proposing a better way to do e-commerce

27. For turning carbon emissions into power

28. For dancing to India’s rhythm

For securing your online identity

30.–32. For taking medicine to new frontiers

Top 10.

33. For mobilizing against toxins

34. For creating a hotel chain that operates like Airbnb

35. For cultivating resilient plants

36. For direct-depositing trust

37. For feeding the hypebeasts

38. For rebuilding the library

39. For scaling higher education for africa’s rising generation

40. For scoring in the clutch

41. For designing a less wasteful fashion industry

Top 10.

42. For simplifying fertility tests

43. For bringing space down to earth

44. For forging an indie film community

45. For rewarding talented educators

46. For making the ordinary extraordinary

47. For educating refugee children

48. For feathering our nest eggs

49. For quarantining Facebook

50. For cooking up delicious social spaces

Top 10.

HOW TO MANAGE MORRIES • All those myths about people born on Tuesday? Yeah, they’re pretty much true. So here’s how to handle this growing population.