Fast Company South Africa

Fast Company inspires a new breed of innovative and creative thought leaders who are actively inventing the future of business. With engaging narratives as informative as they are entertaining, Fast Company motivates fans to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead proactively, and most importantly, embrace change. The South African edition will be along the same themes as the USA; initially 40% of the content will be South African and 60% will be from the USA. For the first time, the South African market will have the opportunity to read exclusive interviews with the CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, NIKE, Google and the top international and local trend-setters across a broad spectrum of industries. South Africans are crying out for a younger, hipper business title – and now they will have one!

Fast Company South Africa

Necessity as the Mother of Invention • Why the Most Profound Ideas Are Born from Constraint

INSIDE THE SPACEX FOUNDER FACTORY • SOLVING THE NEXT FRONTIER OF IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEMS

AEROPRESS • Stainless steel

42 WAYS YOU SHOULD BE USING AI RIGHT NOW • AGENTIC AI CAN MAKE LIFE–AND WORK–EASIER. YOU KNOW THIS. BUT ARE YOU ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT? TIME TO GET OFF THE SIDELINES AND INTO THE GAME.

SA STARTUP ECO-SYSTEM • INNOVATION. COLLABORATION. IMPACT.

MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS BEHIND MICROSOFT SOUTH AFRICA’S EMERGING PARTNER PROGRAMME

World Changing Ideas • BIG PROBLEMS NEED CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, AND THESE PROJECTS DELIVER. SOME ARE TACKLING ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY, WHILE OTHERS ARE USING NEW TECH TO SOLVE OLD PROBLEMS (AND VICE VERSA!). ALL ARE AMBITIOUS ENOUGH TO GET EXCITED ABOUT.

Reinventing the Landline • Tin Can

Wireless Optical Communication • Taara

A Solution for Land-Based Oil Spills • VML

Visionary of the Year • Tim Latimer, CEO, Fervo Energy

AI-Powered Outpatient Surgery • Oath Surgical

NuCycle Nuclear Waste Recycling • Curio

Interim Homes for the Unhoused • DignityMoves

A Privacy-First Phone Plan • Cape

Divya Manual Washing Machine • The Washing Machine Project

A Rapid PCR At-Home STD Test • Visby Medical

Social Media for the Art World • Collecteurs

A City-Owned Grocery Store • Cohere

Winners

ESCOOTER WARS: UNPACKING A TRANSPORT SOLUTION IDEA FROM A GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVE

NIKE ACG’S LATEST INNOVATION IS A FULLY PORTABLE SOCCER FIELD

APPLE: THE FIRST 50 YEARS David Pogue

FAST EVENTS

Monster Hit • How Labubu took over the world—one unboxing video at a time. BY DAVID SALAZAR