August 06, 2026 How a brilliant founder can become their company’s creative bottleneck BY Aysha Imtiaz Lauren Templeton built a company around creativity. A London-based performing arts entrepreneur and coach, she’s grown her school, Select School of Performing Arts, from three ballet classes in one studio into a 50-location organization reaching more than 1,000 students a week. At first, … Continue reading How a brilliant founder can become their company’s creative bottleneck
July 21, 2026 The effects of big layoffs on a company’s Glassdoor ratings can linger for years BY Ella Chakarian From tech to finance, mass layoffs are rippling through industries this year. Companies including Amazon, Meta, and Oracle have slashed thousands of roles, typically citing AI adoption or broader restructuring as the reason for the cuts. … Continue reading The effects of big layoffs on a company’s Glassdoor ratings can linger for years
July 20, 2026 Lyft CEO David Risher on the company’s road to profitability BY Ella Chakarian When David Risher was appointed as Lyft’s CEO in 2023, the company was struggling with financial losses and dwindling market share. The rideshare conducted multiple rounds of layoffs to stay afloat. In mid-February, Lyft was valued at $ 4.2 … Continue reading Lyft CEO David Risher on the company’s road to profitability
July 09, 2026 How the Gap’s CEO uses ‘brand love’ to track the company’s comeback BY Robert Safian Gap was never uncool. It just disappeared for a while. CEO Richard Dickson explains how he’s bringing it back, using the same pop culture playbook he used to resurrect Barbie at Mattel. He breaks down why he tracks … Continue reading How the Gap’s CEO uses ‘brand love’ to track the company’s comeback
Elon Musk wants any damages from his OpenAI lawsuit given to the AI company’s nonprofit arm He wants CEO Sam Altman off the nonprofit board as well. By Anna Washenko April 7, 2026 Reuters / REUTERS We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Elon Musk is still taking OpenAI to court over … Continue reading Elon Musk wants any damages from his OpenAI lawsuit given to the AI company’s nonprofit arm
July 11, 2024 How this company’s AI tools help prevent suicide and mental health crises NeuroFlow’s platform uses natural language processing to evaluate suicide risk in patients. BY Shalene Gupta Suicide rates are on the rise. Nearly 50,000 people died by suicide in 2022, a 3% increase from the previous year according to the CDC, and … Continue reading How this company’s AI tools help prevent suicide and mental health crises
By Liz Stinson The office has become a place of contentious experimentation. It’s never been harder to know what the office means to workers today, and what it might mean in the future. Companies’ return-to-office mandates have created rifts between employers and employees, who are often at odds when it comes to where the … Continue reading RTO in 2024: Fast Company’s 8-point guide for designing an office your workers actually want to return to
By Elaine Mak November 24, 2023 In a high-growth company, every executive is focused on performance. When companies achieve their financial goals, there is often a well-deserved and collective victory lap to celebrate hard work and a job well done. But more often than not, these victories were made up of something far more … Continue reading Is performance part of your company’s DNA?
By Chris Morris September 21, 2023 Median salaries—for everybody—at tech companies are generally higher than other fields. But in some cases, though, the amounts the bosses take home are hundreds—or even thousands—of times higher than even well-paid employees. As part of Fast Company’s CEO Fair Pay report, we’ve broken out the 15 CEOs of … Continue reading Fast Company’s CEO Fair Pay report: The 15 ‘least fairly’ paid tech CEOs
By Michael Grothaus April 28, 2023 Over the past several months, the tech industry has been hit by mass layoffs at nearly every major company, including Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, to name a few. And just in the last week alone, Dropbox and Lyft joined the fray with significant staff reductions. But … Continue reading Leaders, your mass layoffs may have an unintended side effect that hurts the company’s bottom line
