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Do you ever think about how much time you spend solo versus how much time you spend doing things at work with others? For some leaders, schedules fill up with meetings and team events. Other leaders barely take part in social situations.Read Full Story
I have been writing about Salesforce for 20 years. That's incredible for me because aside from marriage, there's nothing in my life I've done so consistently for so long. Perhaps like a marriage, the thing that's been attractive about Salesforce is its constantly changing nature. The company went through a typical adolescence for a startup but it always had a sense that it was changing the world.
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I have been writing about Salesforce for 20 years. That's incredible for me because aside from marriage, there's nothing in my life I've done so consistently for so long. Perhaps like a marriage, the thing that's been attractive about Salesforce is its constantly changing nature. The company went through a typical adolescence for a startup but it always had a sense that it was changing the world.
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The once-popular community site is part of internet history. Now Verizon plans to bulldoze much of it.
Quick, what was the most important internet company of the 1990s? There are several legitimate contenders, but any list that didn’t have Yahoo at or near the top would be woefully incomplete. In the pre-Google era, Stanford pals and Yahoo cofounders David Filo and Jerry Yang organized the teeming World Wide Web into an easy-to-use directory. Then they turned their hobby into a company and built it out into the definitive “portal” site, with email, news, games, and a whole lot more.Read Full Story
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are slated to leave the International Space Station around 7:50 a.m. EDT to replace faulty equipment outside the station.
Thirty-six years after Sally Ride become the first American woman in space, NASA is making history is again.Read Full Story
Fast Company assembled a diverse group of entrepreneurs, technologists, corporate chieftains, and designers for its inaugural business council.
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President and CEO, Cartier North AmericaRead Full Story
A new video highlights some efforts Gates is funding to make plants grow faster.
What: “Tuning up photosynthesis” a hybrid scientific-explainer-slash-music-video created by the Gates Foundation to popularize the idea plants can be engineered in ways that improve upon nature.Read Full Story
More than 300 speakers, 150 events, and thousands of attendees will take over New York City for #FCFESTIVAL, November 4-8
Good things come in fives: Olympic rings, Great Lakes, Backstreet Boys—and the fifth annual Fast Company Innovation Festival is no exception, with an incredible five-day lineup. Thousands of attendees and more than 300 trailblazers in business, culture, social impact, and beyond will converge at the historical Caldwell Factory in West Chelsea, which once housed the workshop of celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. This year’s festival is dedicated to exploring the power and potential of a connected world.Read Full Story
A new book from journalist Binyamin Appelbaum shows how economists evolved from overlooked number-crunchers to powerful influencers who reshaped American policy.
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