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Fast Company (magazine)

Fast Company is a full-color not-quite-monthly (10 issues per year) business magazine that reports on innovation, digital media, technology, change management

Change management

Change management is a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state....
, leadership, design and social responsibility. It was launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor

Bill Taylor (businessman)

William C. "Bill" Taylor is co-founder and editor of Fast Company Magazine. He is a former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct professor at Babson College and writes a regular column in the Money section of The Guardian newspaper....
, two former Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School....
editors. Fast Companys current editor is Bob Safian, a veteran of Fortune
Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a International business magazine published by Time Inc. Fortune|Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life , Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner....
and Smart Money
Smart Money

For other uses, see: Smart Money .Smart Money is a 1931 in film starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, the only time Robinson and Cagney made a movie together, despite being the two leading gangster actors at Warner Brothers studios all through the 1930s....
.

In 2000, Fast Company was sold to Gruner & Jahr USA, a division of media giant Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann AG is a transnational mass media corporation founded in 1835, based in G?tersloh, Germany. The company operates in 63 countries and employs 102,397 workers ....
, for $350 million.

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Fast Company is a full-color not-quite-monthly (10 issues per year) business magazine that reports on innovation, digital media, technology, change management
Change management

Change management is a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state....
, leadership, design and social responsibility. It was launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor
Bill Taylor (businessman)

William C. "Bill" Taylor is co-founder and editor of Fast Company Magazine. He is a former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct professor at Babson College and writes a regular column in the Money section of The Guardian newspaper....
, two former Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School....
editors. Fast Companys current editor is Bob Safian, a veteran of Fortune
Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a International business magazine published by Time Inc. Fortune|Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life , Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner....
and Smart Money
Smart Money

For other uses, see: Smart Money .Smart Money is a 1931 in film starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, the only time Robinson and Cagney made a movie together, despite being the two leading gangster actors at Warner Brothers studios all through the 1930s....
.

In 2000, Fast Company was sold to Gruner & Jahr USA, a division of media giant Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann AG is a transnational mass media corporation founded in 1835, based in G?tersloh, Germany. The company operates in 63 countries and employs 102,397 workers ....
, for $350 million. G&J sold it in 2005 and shortly thereafter exited the U.S. market.

The magazine and its website are now owned by Mansueto Ventures, a private media company controlled by Joe Mansueto
Joe Mansueto

Joseph D. Mansueto is the founder and CEO of Morningstar, Inc.. His ownership of Morningstar recently gained him inclusion on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list, with a net worth at time of publication of $1.2 billion....
, the founder and CEO of mutual fund
Mutual fund

A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, Bond , short-term money market instruments, and/or other security ....
rating company Morningstar, Inc.
Morningstar, Inc.

Morningstar, Inc. is an independent investment research company based in Chicago, Illinois, USA....
. Mansueto became a billionaire and joined the Forbes 400
Forbes 400

The Forbes 400 or 400 Richest People is a list published by Forbes Magazine of the wealthiest 400 Americans, ranked by net worth. The list is the oldest and most well known of the many lists of wealthy people published by Forbes, and is published annually in September....
list of the richest Americans when Morningstar went public in 2005. Mansueto Ventures also owns Fast Companys sister publication, Inc. magazine, which is dedicated to covering growing businesses and entrepreneurs.

In 1997, Fast Company created an online social network, the "Company of Friends" which spawned a number of groups that began meeting in person.

FastCompany.com operates as a network of sites with Inc.com and is a member of the Online Publishers Association. The website features FC Now, which launched in 2002, and was one of the first staff-written blogs maintained by a print magazine.

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