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Seeing Business From 100 new angles

It’s Time to Burst Silicon Valley’s Tech Bubble

How Green Was My Valley? • Silicon Valley has always had a dark side. Here are the moments when we glimpsed it.

Opening the Closet

THE RECOMMENDER • What the Fast Company community is loving this month

01-05 FOR LEADING AMERICANS BEYOND THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

06 FOR REDEFINING TESLA’S ELECTRIC CARS—REPEATEDLY

07 FOR TAKING THE PAIN OUT OF SECURITY CHECKS

08 For scoring with NBA fans

09 For offering Instagram as a storefront

10 For navigating beyond the ride

11 FOR CHANGING THE NARRATIVE

Big Little Empire • Reese Witherspoon’s company, Hello Sunshine, has projects in development with a vast array of distributors.

12-13 FOR TRANSLATING AMAZON CHECKOUT TO REAL LIFE

14 For pinpointing Netflix shows you’ll want to watch

15 For sounding off in class

16 FOR TACKLING CONCUSSIONS

17 For giving Google hardware soft skills

18 For placing DNA sequencing in the palm of your hand

19 For granting luxury items new life

20 For battling fake news

21 FOR MAKING LARGE-SCALE HEALTHCARE PERSONAL

22 FOR BUILDING WAKANDA

23 For offering India’s budget hotel owners an upgrade

24 For fighting inequality through architecture

25 FOR LAUNCHING A ZERO-G ECONOMY

26 For training women at Disney to code

27 For getting people to the polls

28 FOR CONNECTING US WHEN THE GRID IS DOWN

29 For diversifying our queue

30 For helping Ben & Jerry’s help migrant workers

31 For tripping Twitter’s live wire

32 FOR LYFT-ING THE BAR

33 FOR CONVINCING US TO PUT. THAT. PHONE. DOWN.

34 For creating fashion without waste

35 For capturing neo-Nazis

36 For piping up for songwriters

Cybersecurity’s New Battle • Hackers are turning to advanced technologies to automate attacks, spurring urgent ingenuity—such as human defenders.

37 / 38 For inking a video-game hit

39 For redefining sports highlights

40 FOR FINDING POETRY IN ADOLESCENCE

41 FOR SPREADING FLAMIN’ HOT PIXIE DUST

42 For teaching us how to cope with tech overload

43 For telling the jokes only she can tell

44 FOR TURNING COMMERCIALS INTO STORIES

45 For selling luxury beauty at drugstore prices

46 For linking fans with bands

47 For empowering models

48 FOR REVITALIZING VACANT STOREFRONTS

49 FOR PUTTING A BOW ON E-COMMERCE

50 For matching digital minds with grassroots efforts

51 For reforesting the Amazon

52 FOR INCUBATING WALMART’S FUTURE

53 / 54 For going up against Big Smiley

55 For programming diversity into tech

56 For rewiring stroke recovery

57 FOR ENSURING THAT THE BLEAT GOES ON

58 For powering affordable geothermal homes

59 For transforming silliness into sawbucks

60 FOR MAKING FASHION SIZZLE

61 For humanizing eldercare

62 For streamlining cybersecurity

63 For being Pinterest’s eyes

64 FOR INCREASING THE EXPOSURE

65 FOR FATTENING THE APPLE PAY WALLET

66 For coloring housing a deeper shade of green

67 For investing in overlooked entrepreneurs

68 For narrowing the search

69 For forecasting data-driven, must-see TV

70 FOR ENLISTING TECH...