Fast Company 🏆 Meet the Queer 50 visionaries and leaders changing the face of their industries

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From: Fast Company Compass - Wednesday Jun 08, 2022 01:33 pm
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Good Morning! Today we are proud to launch Fast Company's third annual Queer 50 list, which highlights the most powerful queer women and nonbinary leaders in business and tech. Produced in collaboration with Lesbians Who Tech & Allies, the list includes those working on addressing the most pressing issues of our time, including climate change, reproductive justice, and pay equity. Check out the full list, and read more about our selection process here.
—Julia Herbst, @juliarherbst
 
Announcing the Queer 50 2022 list

Introducing Fast Company’s third annual list of LGBTQ women and nonbinary innovators in business and tech.
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Caitlin Kalinowski is shaping the metaverse

The Head of AR hardware at Meta (formerly, Facebook) is No. 5 on Fast Company’s third annual Queer 50 list.
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As Reddit gears up for an IPO, Jen Wong is holding the reins

“I’m exactly where I want to be,” says Reddit COO Jen Wong, who tops Fast Company’s third-annual Queer 50 list this year.
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An oil-company spinoff wants to help build 70 direct air capture plants by 2035

A plant from Carbon Engineering and 1PointFive—which spun out of oil company Occidental—will suck 1 million tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere every year. It’s just the beginning of their carbon removal partnership.
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The rise of ‘supertokenism’—and what organizations get flat wrong about DEI

Want to dismantle exclusionary power structures at your company? Skip the supertokens, writes Dori Tunstall, OCAD University dean of design.
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financing the future
What is stagflation? The World Bank issues a warning about the economy

The World Bank warns that the economy may be at risk of regressing to the 1970s.
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Apple’s doing everything but the obvious to make the iPad a compelling laptop replacement

Without a desktop software ecosystem, the iPad remains trapped in productivity limbo, offering more complexity than an iPhone but less utility than a Mac.
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nft
How brands like Nike and Prada are using NFTs—and why it could go terribly wrong

Top brands are experimenting with NFTs to add another dimension to their businesses. But they should proceed with caution.
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workplace evolution
Company leaders weighed in on location-based salaries. Here are the pros and cons

The founder of Compt sought opinions from company leaders who have considered, implemented, or outright rejected location-based salaries. Here’s what she learned.
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How we selected this year’s Queer 50 list

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how this year’s list came together.
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NEWS
A Starlink IPO? That’s pie in the sky for now
SpaceX employees and private investors will be disappointed to hear that an IPO isn’t in the cards any time soon for its Starlink satellite internet business.
That’s according to a leaked recording of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk addressing the company’s employees and obtained by CNBC.
In the address to employees, which took place last Thursday, Musk said that spinning off its Starlink satellite internet business from SpaceX and taking it public likely wouldn’t happen until 2025 at the earliest.
After a record number of listings last year—fueled in part by the SPAC craze—IPO activity has declined dramatically since the beginning of 2022, and especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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