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Americans are having children later and closer together. The luxury brand is responding with lightweight, compact strollers that can fit two kids. Some 25 years ago, a Dutch stroller brand called Bugaboo entered the market with a slightly nutty idea: a luxury stroller.

Founding partner Anu Duggal thinks there’s still opportunity in beauty and consumer goods. AI is a different story. When the Female Founders Fund (FFF), a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies, was started in 2014, just 2% of venture capital dollars went towards women-led companies. That number hit a record high last year, with 22.8% of all VC money going to startups with at least one woman cofounder.

The German luggage maker took three years to engineer the new bag in its Cologne factory. In the 1920s, the German luggage maker Rimowa built an aluminum trunk. Over the next decades, the company’s engineers and designers would iterate on its design to create Rimowa’s now iconic product, a wheeled suitcase with grooves, that you will find at airports all over the world.

Proto’s holographic tech makes it feel like a remote doctor is sitting in the same room. On a recent weekday, I stood in front of a phone-booth-sized box—seven feet tall, four feet wide, and two feet deep—talking to a life-sized, three-dimensional image of a doctor who was 2,000 miles away in Tennessee.

It’s about attracting the right people for your company and empowering them to do their best work. Being business savvy isn’t about keeping every employee you hire. It’s about attracting the right people for your company and empowering them to do their best work. Even if those people are freelance workers.

TIME has published its second annual list of the World’s Best Companies, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. The result of this quantitative study: 1,000 companies forging the path into the future. Here’s how the winners were selected. Methodology The research project “World’s Best Companies 2024” is a comprehensive analysis conducted to identify the top performing companies across the globe.