Fast Company is a business magazine with a self-described focus on technology and ethics that it refers to as "ethonomics".Fast Company: What is Ethonomics? (February 20, 2009) The magazine is owned by Mansueto Ventures LLC, a privately held company. MediaBistro.com: How to Revive The Business Publication You Just... (June 26, 2005) Hoover's: Mansueto Ventures LLC.

In 1997 Fast Company launched Company of Friend', an online professional networking community.Fast Company: About the Company of Friends Fast Company began an online video site with news and reviews in 2007, attracting talent like Robert Scoble. FastCompany.TV and alongside Scobleizer.TV were launched in 2008. CenterNetworks: Fast Company TV is Live (February 08, 2008)

Alan Webber and Bill Taylor founded Fast Company in 1993 by with $550,000 of start-up capital. The first issue was published in October 1995; it was the only issue to be published that year. The magazine won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1999.Fast Company: A Brief History of Our Time (December 19, 2007) The next year, 2000, Fast Company was sold to Gruner & Jahr, a division of of Bertelsmann Media.New York Times: Gruner & Jahr Said to Sell 2 Business Magazines (June 21, 2005) Since 2005, Fast Company has been owned by Joe Mansueto who also owns Inc., a business magazine focusing on small business and the entrepreneur.Hoover's: Mansueto Ventures Company Description

Fast Company is currently being run by Robert Safian, a veteran of successful publications like Fortune and TIME.Fast Company: Robert Safian's Member Profile Page

Fast Company "walked the talk", putting the paper's ideals into practice when it switched to using 100% recycled paper in February of 2007.environmentalleader.com: Inc. & Fast Company Switch To 100% Recycled... (June 7, 2007)

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