About Bill
Bill Taylor is the co-founder of Fast Company. This bold business magazine redefined the genre and chronicled the tech-driven revolution which transformed how businesses work. Chronicling and learning from free-thinking leaders and game-changing companies is Bill’s passion. He had a front-row seat to the forces that have redefined the logic of business and personal success.
Fast Company has won just about every award there is to win in the magazine world. From “Startup of the Year” to “Magazine of the Year” to three National Magazine Awards. In recognition of Fast Company‘s impact on business, Bill was named “Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance” by the American Society of Training and Development. In less than six years, a magazine that took shape in borrowed office space in Harvard Square sold for $340 million.
Bill continues to inspire a generation of executives and company-builders to think differently about leadership, change, culture, and the new world of work. He’s written three bestselling books filled with examples of new ways to innovate and succeed: Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways, and Practically Radical. Bill is also a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review.
Besides the previously mentioned works, Bill co-authored Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win. Just weeks after its release, Mavericks became a New York Times bestseller, a Wall Street Journal Business bestseller and a BusinessWeek bestseller. In addition, The Economist also named Mavericks one of its “Books of the Year” for 2006, as did The Financial Times.
He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters.
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