Urban vibrancy doesn’t only happen through grand projects or planned spaces. It happens through moments like one we recently witnessed on a vacant lot in downtown Louisville, KY. There, in the city’s Bourbon District, food trucks served a crowd milling around the MakerMobile, a tinkering...
Nasir Jones, better known as Nas, reigns atop many folks’ “best rappers alive” lists. But in the past few years, Nas has also been building his cred as a tech investor. As a founding partner of L.A.-based Queensbridge Venture Partners, the celeb’s portfolio includes some...
We asked several participants in the upcoming Techonomy 2014 conference to write an article for us on what they are passionate about right now. Even after spending my whole career in tech, I’m still taken aback by each new diversity stat that underscores the systemic and...
As part of the reporting on this month's magazine profile of Tristan Walker, Fast Company brought together a roundtable discussion of other African-American tech leaders. The conversation spanned everything from hiring practices of top firms to entrepreneurial funding. Larry "L.J." Erwin: I know the numbers are...
After reading a post on my blog about the lack of gender diversity in science and technology, my nine-year-old son commented, “All women are capable of the unbelievable!” Recent gender diversity reports from Google, Facebook and Apple (to name a few) have spurred a number...