The 25 small businesses listed here, all of which have less than $50 million in 2019 sales and fewer than 200 employees, successfully navigated the turbulent year, even as some founders cope with personal losses from Covid-19
America's higher education system was already struggling before the pandemic. Covid-19 made matters worse for students
With nearly a billion dollars in funding, Joby Aviation promises to have its air taxis aloft by 2023
Amid a luxury fashion apocalypse, one of the century's greatest entrepreneurial retailers—and one of America's richest self-made women—brought us deep inside the battle to save her brand
Some of the biggest donors this year were tied to the Covid-19 pandemic, while others remained dedicated to causes such as the arts and education
Why Brooklyn-based Prose is betting millions that Americans will fork over $25 for customised shampoo. Then rinse and repeat
Amy Novogratz fought back from a brain tumor that could have killed her to build the world's largest sustainable aquaculture investment fund
By hooking disillusioned millennials on its zero-commission, gamified trading app, Robinhood has forever changed the retail brokerage business. "Democratising finance" is the stated goal, but its founders have become billionaires by leading a new generation of rubes right into the jaws of Wall Street's most notorious sharks
Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong's radical cancer treatments made him one of the wealthiest physicians on earth. Now the master of medical marketing believes his drug therapies could defeat the "crisis of our time"—and there are plenty of reasons to think he'll deliver more Hippocrates than hype
Netflix had already upended Hollywood when the pandemic hit. But by making use of a highly unusual management style, its billionaire founder has positioned his juggernaut to prosper like few companies in the world right now
For the fifth straight year, Forbes, along with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, provides the definitive ranking of the world's top private cloud companies