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What Makes Uber Run?

The transportation service has become a global brand, an economic force, and a cultural lightning rod. Here's how and why the architect of all this disruption, CEO Travis Kalanick, plans to keep on confounding expectations.

How The UN Is Using Virtual Reality To Tackle Real-World Problems

The United Nations is using virtual reality to tackle real-world problems.

How Failed JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson Is Redeeming Himself

The man who helped make Target cool and Apple Stores the most successful retail concept ever was severely humbled after flaming out at JCPenney. Only a startup could save him.

20 Predictions For The Next 20 Years

Early presidential polls have tended to be wildly off-target. There’s no reason to think this time is different.

Elon Musk Powers Up: Inside Tesla's $5 Billion Gigafactory

Elon Musk, the CEO who made electric cars sexy and commercial space travel a reality, is venturing into the messy battery business. Here’s why it’s his boldest bet yet.

A Newsletter Giving Feminism A Fresh Voice

With their online newsletter Lenny, Girls collaborators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner are giving feminism a fresh voice.

How Ipsy Is Reinventing The Cosmetics Industry

YouTube star and Ipsy founder Michelle Phan is at the forefront of the social reinvention of the $39 billion cosmetics industry.

Microsoft's Radical Bet On A New Type Of Design Thinking

How studying underserved communities is helping the tech giant create better products.

How To Build an Army of Social Entrepreneurs

After selling half his company, Toms founder Blake Mycoskie is doubling down on social entrepreneurship.

Could A Biometric Lock Be the Key to Gun Safety?

Could a biometric lock be the key to gun safety?

How BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company

Many NBA big men believe they are cursed by the very trait that brought them glory. And the emerging science around extreme size suggests they’re right.

How Taco Bell Nailed Its Innovative New Quesalupa

For combining corn, beans, meat, and cheese into genius.

How Hudl's Mobile-Video Software Is Transforming Sports

Its power is derived from custom and deference. How old-fashioned.

Big Conference, Big Ideas

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent extravaganza at the Venetian Las Vegas is a window into innovations and trends that make for a singular event.

Donald Glover: Hollywood's Most In-Demand Polymaths

Donald Glover Actor, musician, writer, producer Donald Glover is tired. Like, bone-tired—the kind of tired that crushes his normally bright voice into a monotonous murmur.

For Changing The Way We Look At Wearables

Laurya MorrisDesign lead, Specatcles, Snap 

Out of the Box

Last August, Birchbox Co-CEO Hayley Barna decided to walk away from the influential beauty subscription-box startup that she cofounded in 2010 (she remains on the company’s board).

Clique Media Group

For parlaying fashion advice into retail gold

Carol Lim And Humberto Leon

Creative directors, Kenzo

It's A Big World After All

Disney Is Tapping Into Star Wars, Marvel, And More To Upgrade Its Theme Parks.

Amazon's Top Employer - Beth Galetti

As Amazon’s workforce swells, so do its challenges. Here’s why the company has entrusted its complex HR network to an electrical engineer.

Everlane's Plastic-Free Promise

The fashion industry is awash in carbon-intensive plastic. As a climate crisis looms, upstart apparel brand Everlane is weaning itself off new synthetics entirely. Spoiler: It’s not easy.

Match Point

How Match Group Ceo Mandy Ginsberg Meets The Dating Needs Of Different Communities, At Home And Abroad

How To Make It In Business, The Millennial (Pink) Way

In the airy auditorium of a massive industrial space in downtown L.A., Kim Kardashian West lays out her approach to entrepreneurship to an audience of around 1,500 young women. Attendees, who moments earlier were knocking over chairs to get as close as possible to the stage and frantically posting on social media, are captivated. “I put in the work,” Kardashian West says. “There’s nothing that bothers me more than people that are lazy.

The Other Jared

How Jared Cohen, CEO of Google offshoot jigsaw, is taking on ISIS, fake news, and toxic trolls to make the internet–and the world–a safer place

Assasin's Creed: Origins Gives Ubisoft A New Mission

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Wave Runner

A CUTTING-EDGE WOOL BOARD IS CLEANING UP SURFING.

ABC Entertainment President On Diversity and Competing With Netflix

After an unexpectedly high-profile year abc entertainment president channing dungey speaks about diversity, streaming and keeping the peace betweens how runners and executives.

A Clear Solution

Clear will speed you throughlong lines at the stadium orairport. All it costs is $179 and your personal biometric data.

Shop Talk

THEY APPRECIATE EACH OTHERS DIFFERENCES, AND THEY KNOW THEIR OWN STRENGTHS AND SHORTCOMINGS. BETH COMSTOCK AND RACHELSHECHTMANSHOW US WHAT SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION CAN LOOK LIKE.