Ainsley Harris

Dara Khosrowshahi is spreading Uber’s robotaxi bets as early AV partner Waymo starts driving solo. Plus: A first look inside Uber's new Nuro AV.

Augustus Doricko’s Rainmaker uses cloud seeding to bring rain where it’s needed. In the process, he’s been swept up in a storm of controversy.

Bilt's rewards credit card was just the start. It's now building a $1-billion-a-year business as the loyalty program for every expense.

Police departments across the country are buying Flock Safety surveillance cameras and drones in the name of stopping crime.

With one week until the January kickoff of Y Combinator’s winter 2024 startup batch, there’s a hush in the prestigious accelerator program’s cavernous new San Francisco headquarters. The only sound, aside from steady rain streaking the windows, is…

Former Peloton CEO John Foley is launching his charm offensive. I’ve just been ushered into the Manhattan office of his new startup, the rug company Ernesta, when Foley appears with a crinkled smile, summer tan, tight-fitting navy polo, and firm…

College football’s brightest stars, dressed in their snappiest suits, assembled beneath gray skies and the beaux-arts grandeur of Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri this past April for the first day of the 2023 National Football League draft. As…

The palm trees along Ocean Avenue are veiled in mist as I walk toward the Proper Hotel in Santa Monica, California, on a Saturday morning in March. Inside the glass-and-cement building, where more than 300 women’s voices beckon, I’m confronted with…

OpenAI is No. 1 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2023. Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture. On a bright Monday morning at the end of January, the six-person leadership team…

Before the heating system failed in the depths of winter, before the foundation appeared to shift, before she and her husband watched YouTube videos in order to fix the dishwasher, Amber Gutierrez believed that she had found her forever home, thanks…

When Bryce Johnson first discovered Axie Infinity, in spring 2021, he was four years out of college at Virginia Commonwealth University and had just started his fourth job as a software engineer, working deep in the bureaucratic morass of the…

This story is part of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022. Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping their businesses, industries, and the broader culture. On an icy gray morning in December, which held the promise of snow,…

Read more about how Amazon is upending business, from A to Z Catherine Seifert just wanted to solve the problem of where to put her purse in her car. Before she knew it, she had a patented device and a multimillion-dollar business selling her mesh…

Wearing a poppy-red top and a turquoise beaded necklace, Rep. Katie Porter materializes in Zoom gallery view alongside two dozen childcare professionals from her home district in Orange County, California. It’s mid-January, 10 long months since…

To celebrate his 50th birthday, Scott Galloway planned a very special evening. It was November 2014, and the entrepreneur had booked Pioneer Works, a cavernous event space near the waterfront in Brooklyn. Inside the building, candles arranged on a…

Amid the sea of silk ties, charcoal suits, and glinting cuff links at the Museum of American Finance’s annual gala, PayPal president and CEO Dan Schulman is an easy mark. He’s wearing jeans, for one thing. His shoulders are slouched. And his wavy…

A black suburban dispatched by MSNBC’s Morning Joe is idling outside best-selling author Anand Giridharadas’s Brooklyn apartment when I arrive just after dawn one morning in August. Giridharadas, dressed for TV in a pin-striped blazer and with a…

A dozen venture capital investors in dark suits enter the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on an overcast November afternoon, pass through security, and make their way to the basement, where a police officer guards the entrance to the Senate’s Sensitive…

Taking their seats across from me in a conference room at their airy red-brick headquarters in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood on a brisk August morning, Adam Bowen and James Monsees, cofounders of the breakout e-cigarette company Juul, lay…

Ride the elevator up to the eighth floor of a loft-like office building in the heart of Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood, and you’ll find a thriving education technology startup called Amplify on track to book $125 million in 2018 revenue. In one room,…