Q&A

"Our goal is to be to be the technology that powers shopping in the metaverse."

"People are going to see more value in digital assets than in physical assets."

"We see ourselves as the next generation social network."

"Moment is a gateway into meditation."

"We want to build a network to link our clients' single-use plastic to others who can use that plastic in different industries."

"We cannot properly address climate change without addressing gender inequality."

"The mental fitness revolution will be as big as—or bigger than—the physical fitness revolution."

"Our company is a cross between 23andMe, Nespresso and Impossible Foods."

"Human beings still crave that tactility."

"We are paying attention and we are actively calling brands out."

"We have the power to enrich our own lives with depth and meaning via so many endangered experiences."

"Our future, our fight."

"I think it's actually a really great time to develop a brand because of the ways in which society is turning."

"Everyone wants brands to speak to them. They want to see themselves reflected in what the brand represents."

"Customers just aren't responding to advertising the way they used to."

"Content is not story. Content is actually chemistry, packaged through the prism of narrative, with tremendous curative potential"

"For gen Z, your products almost need to be secondary. You have to support them in a way that means something."

"There will be a new ranking system or value system for holding companies and public figures accountable."

It's kind of like a Linkedin for experiences, plus an Airbnb for experiences, plus an IMDB for experiences.

"We do everything on our phones. It's not a far step to say, 'I'm going to get my relaxation and intimacy online now, too.'"

"When you look at it, it's a night of prime time which [viewers] are just programming themselves."

"How do we make it easier to exist as a Muslim woman in today's world?"

Yumi Ishikawa, founder, #KuToo

"Data has become the most valuable asset on planet earth."

"We are visualizing the memories of machines."

"We see gender inequality starting at birth."

"You go into a plank position, put on your goggles, and see yourself flying through mountains and diving into water."

We're creating a new language around women's lives.

Good design and purpose will become the arithmetic to luxury.

Could you take the dramatic arc of Star Wars and superimpose that on a trip?

The essential currency for buying happiness and signalling status has fundamentally changed.

"What we do is build private mansions in the social media space."

"I think alcohol is the new cigarettes—it will become increasingly uncool and socially unacceptable."

"Imagine J.A.R.V.I.S. from Iron Man – that's really what we're building."

The world has been a mystery in terms of our own skin, and skin technology can make that mystery clearer.

In the past it was all about adopting technology and now it's about learning to live with technology.

Sexual health is moving out of the shadows in Asia.

Young people are concocting crazy looks and crafting together their own identity through beauty.

"We want to bring that high-school feeling where there's pep rallies and they're cheering on their best athletes."

"A compressed bite of edible culture."

"We decided to take the sports sponsorship model and apply it to scientists."

"For modern women, fertility is so much more than trying to get pregnant right now."

"Imagine that we are hosting a global, sustainable potluck—we are here to host the party."

"I think food is fun, and we want to remind people of that."

"Big Tech increasingly has more influence ideologically, economically and politically than the state."

"Food safety is a top-of-mind issue for Chinese consumers."

"We need to start shifting the culture about selfcare and mental health."

Smoking accessories get a luxury makeover thanks to lifestyle brand Tetra.

"We want to be the world's largest faith-based accommodation site"

"We want to make each performance feel as if it was related to every single person in the audience"

Harth is for people who appreciate interiors—for design lovers who don't want to compromise

"My vision and my hope is to break the mold of what a sustainable business has to be like."

The ability to afford a decent life is increasingly difficult in so many places.

"As menopause receives more attention, more sophisticated products will enter the market space."

Using real women looking real, as opposed to unattainable, really does resonate with our customers.

Megababe is all about finding solutions for problems that women have been shamed about for years.

As human beings, we've always wanted to eat things that aren't quite real.

"Women of the Elastic Generation are ripping up the rule book when it comes to life past 50."

Food is being prescribed as medicine.

Every relaxation of the one-child policy in the past has not had much impact.

Women of color are now more informed, and we're demanding more from the brand.

The balance today is, how can you provide great service while providing the rawest kind of experience?

"Bling bling" China, for a lot of people, is passé.

There's definitely a huge demand for these personalized products now.

Our generation came out and said: "This isn't quite marrying with the expectations we were brought up with."

Inspiration can be in everything.

It's glaringly apparent that the media leaves one topic out: sex

These stories are meant to give insight to what lies behind a woman's dress code.

The growth of this industry has changed the perception of Muslim women in the hijab.

You have to have a purpose, as a woman.

The defining characteristic here is the speed of change.

We are the only men's grooming brand in the country giving hand and foot grooming the attention it deserves.

We wanted to find something poetic with the drones, rather than functional.

Our entire thesis is, if you just mail in this tampon, you can monitor yourself.

I wanted to create an urban space where people could go to reboot.

You do not have to throw it all away to connect to a sense of your own spirituality.

Women are starting to understand themselves and their bodies a lot more, thanks in part to the internet.

Consider that the current state of advertising was a 50-year anomaly.

There's no doubt that the internet increases the pool of possibilities for dating.

Men say their clothing and fitness becomes more important when they become a dad.

The stereotypes are antiquated at this point.

"It's insane to think that a beauty brand could ever represent themselves without representing a global footprint."

This is where designers can have the most impact: to feed people in an efficient way.

The benefits of healing touch can be profound, and we want everybody to have access to that.

We're delivering not just the convenience of a doctor in their house, but also better medicine.

VR has a lot of potential to help us with mental and physical health.

We're so proud of who we are, but we are simply a beautiful container for these microorganisms.

What you put into your body really affects not just the way you look, but the way you feel.

We've got to figure out how to grow real food in the city, at scale, as quickly as possible.

In digital, we've seen that shorter has become the new norm.

The better digital technology gets, the more valuable analog has become.

Now that the 'urban travel' movement has grown, the industry is finally paying attention.

I hope to create a space where people who care about mental health can tell their personal stories.

The line between physical and digital is becoming increasingly blurred, and there's a lot of concern.

What would products do if they had digital lives?

There's still a lack of knowledge about the products that really work for us.

Whether it's a political ad or a brand ad, intensity of emotional response makes it shareable.

Fashion tries to be so far ahead, but it still puts people in binary boxes.

We want to be The Lad Bible for middle-aged women.

We're a stressed-out generation, and meditation is an obvious source for stress reduction.

People are hungry for product, and can't get the product because they have no addresses.

We're bridging the gap from app engagements to more conversational behaviors.

I loved the idea that you shopped online and then you had this physical experience.

We see Beauty Papers as a political vehicle. That's not to be provocative, it's to make people think.

The mission is to make stars out of creative technologists.

As the conversation turns visual, there's a huge need for being able to read what's happening in photos.

Innovation has been a part of Cuban history and culture for the last 60 years.

We are challenging the idea that being clean means that you have to be sterile.

I love the idea of an ad campaign that, instead of taking over your screen, takes over your life.

There's going to be a lot more audacity and boldness to our aesthetics.