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Who Sets the Pace at Your Company?

Story at Work

Spinning Up a Growing Business

The Big Little Business Era • Inc. 5000 companies are scaling with fewer workers. The quest for the $1 billion solo business is on.

Marketing Toolkits • Some of the fastest-growing marketing agencies on this year's Inc. 5000 have found success by focusing on blue-collar businesses.

By the Numbers

The GLP-1 Gold Rush • Some 30 million Americans could be using GLP-1s by 2030. And it isn't just pharmaceutical giants that stand to benefit from the medication's boom.

Inc. 5000 CEO Survey

Wellness Unleashed • A pack of fast-growing companies is pampering pets with specialty foods and health services.

Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire? • Elon Musk launches his way onto the Inc. 5000.

Should You Work With a Coach? • Founders share the biggest lessons they took away from their experiences with business coaches.

Why There Is No Formula for Great Leadership • By searching to identify what traits make for successful leaders, Good to Great author Jim Collins discovered a whole new philosophy.

LEADERSHIP • DATA FROM THE 2026 INC. 5000 CEO SURVEY

To Build a Top Team, Consider Flawed Candidates • Rejecting strong job seekers with noticeable weaknesses is a common mistake, as shown by Google, Moneyball—and Ulysses S. Grant.

TALENT STRATEGY • DATA FROM THE 2026 INC. 5000 CEO SURVEY

How to Harness the Power of Compounding • When you build a strong foundation on solid profits, the growth of your company can snowball.

Why Future-Focused HR Is a Competitive Advantage • With the right platforms, partners, and mindset, companies can ease HR's administrative burden, meet employee expectations, and scale faster.

How Fast-Growth Companies Are Investing in AI • Three enterprising founders share their strategies for leveraging artificial intelligence—without overusing it.

SevenRooms Skipped an IPO and Never Looked Back • Just five years after Covid nearly killed his business, Joel Montaniel sold his hospitality technology company to DoorDash for over $1 billion.

Going Above and Beyond • For some risk-taking founders, the best place to relax is at the yoke of their own aircraft.

Plane Truths

Top Honors • Meet America's economic engine: Fast-growing companies building new industries, creating 600,000 jobs, and innovating like crazy. And the No. 1 company is …

A Rural Health Care Provider Is America's Fastest-Growing Company

The Vibe Coders’ Dilemma • Replit is meant to be the perfect marriage of AI and design. But as the company hits $125 million in revenue, it faces a classic innovation trap: The easier it is to code, the harder it is to sustain a software business.

Betting on Human Connection

This Software for Contractors Is Backed by Peter Thiel's Fund

Teaching History, One Doll at a Time

How I Built a $43 Million Business to Help Women Through Menopause

What Started as a Family Recipe Is Now a $269 Million Hair Care Brand

Mail-Order Charcuterie Turns Out to Be a Big Business

SALES • DATA FROM THE 2026 INC. 5000 CEO SURVEY

Answering the Tough Questions

How I Built a $3.2 Million Family Business That Honors My Father's Legacy

Fighting Fire With AI • OVERSTORY SPOTS VEGETATION NEAR POWER LINES, PREVENTING A MAJOR CAUSE OF WILDFIRES. BUT BEFORE THE COMPANY COULD...