Introducing Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative People of the Last 10 Years

From Ryan Reynolds, Issa Rae, and Lin-Manuel Miranda to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, these are the people who’ve driven us forward and continue to chart the path ahead.

In honor of Fast Company’s 10th Innovation Festival next week, we identified the industrious leaders whose groundbreaking efforts defined the past decade in business. We spoke to them about their extraordinary achievements in tech, medicine, entertainment, and more. And we explored how the impact of their work has withstood passing fads, various presidential administrations, a pandemic, and many, many quarterly reports. These are the 10 most innovative people of the last 10 years.