Why everything from Amazon and eBay to Windows 95 and the PalmPilot came along in one memorable, wildly innovative 12-month period.
On November 6, 1995, the first issue of Fast Company debuted. Its founders, Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, were former Harvard Business Review editors who had been working on the idea for a while: in fact, they’d produced a prototype version in 1993. With funding from media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman, they began regular publication with a cover that famously declared that business is personal, computing is social, and knowledge is power. The mantra was so prescient that it still captures our perspective two decades later.
