October 1, 2015 / Fortune Asia / Volume 172 / Number 5 / 40 Under 40

features

60 Contamination Nation
Despite big advances in science and huge investments by companies, food-borne illness still gets 48 million people sick in the U.S. each year-and costs the industry billions of dollars. Here’s why-and what we might do to solve it.
By Beth Kowitt

Plus: How ice cream maker Blue Bell blew it.
By Peter Elkind

40 Under 40

30 Flight of Fantasy
No one thought fantasy sports could be a multibillion-dollar business. Not at first, anyway. DraftKings CEO Jason Robins is leading the charge in a brutal but bankable market. Are the new business models legal? Depends. But that won’t slow him down.
By Daniel Roberts

34 Fortune’s 40 Under 40
Innovation is coming at us from all corners of industry, as our 2015 ranking of the most influential young people in business shows. The one thing they have in common: They make their own rules.

48 The Anti-Hacker
Will Ackerly was a hotshot NSA technologist who grew concerned by the agency’s widespread snooping. He left and launched what just may be the best technology to protect your data from cybercriminals-and government spying.
By Luke O’Brien

68 Southwest’s Radical New Flight Plan
The maverick airline became the industry’s biggest success story by going its own way. Its latest strategy? Operate more like everybody else.
By Shawn Tully

departments

Macro

6 Closer Look
Germany needs migrants. Here’s why the U.S. does too.
By Claire Groden

10 Growth Industries
TV and Super PACs: a love story.
By Anne VanderMey

11 My G-G-Generation
Millennials: They’re just like us?

12 21st-Century Corporation
The tech manufacturer Flex gets inventive.
By Adam Lashinsky

14 Fortune Global Forum
Navigating the breakup of the global economy.
By Geoff Colvin

16 Global Power Profile
Don’t mess with SEC chief Mary Jo White.
By Geoff Colvin

18 Pursuits
Tips for a great day in San Francisco.
By Adam Erace

Tech

21 Object of Interest
Intel’s high-tech chips get a high-fashion debut.
By Andrew Nusca

22 Brainstorm E Special
Fusion 2.0: Billionaire investors like Jeff Bezos aim for new success with an old idea. Plus: Seeking the next energy star at Fortune’s Brainstorm E conference.
By Brian Dumaine and Katie Fehrenbacher

Invest

26 Playing Defense
Are you ready for the next bear market? The good news: You may be better prepared than you think.
By Joshua M. Brown

76 BING!

CORRECTIONS

A photo caption in ”The Spy in the Corner Office” (Sept. 15) misidentified a General Dynamics shipyard. It is the company’s Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn. ”She Thanks You for Not Smoking” (Sept. 15) stated incorrectly that Pembroke Consulting forecasts specialty drugs will soon generate 15% of pharmacy revenues; the correct figure is 50%.

ON THE COVER: WILL ACKERLY PHOTOGRAPHED BY BENJAMIN LOWY

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MATT TAYLOR

Flex monitors its supply chain.

Alek Wek in Intel-powered apparel

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