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, and the first issue of Fast Company debuted. Its founders,Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, were former Harvard commerce Review editors who had been working on the concept for a while: in fact, or 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 commerce is personal, computing is social, or knowledge is power. The mantra was so prescient that it still captures our perspective two decades later.
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