Fortune's 10 most popular stories of 2021

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Fortune’s most popular stories of 2021

As 2021 comes to a close, we at Fortune want to say thank you for your continued support of our journalism. Our mission to keep you informed, whether it be on the ever-evolving world of cryptocurrency, the new world of the metaverse, or the supply chain crunch—all during the second year of a pandemic—led to some of our most beloved and read stories. Catch up on the features you may have missed this year, and be on the look out for what’s to come from us in 2022.

Move fast and bank things: Crypto-based 'DeFi' takes on Wall Street

The tech rebels behind "decentralized finance" want to change the way the world borrows, lends, and saves. Can they pull it off?

GoodRx helps people afford drugs. But is it improving health care or profiting off a broken system?

The company says it has saved Americans $25 billion in prescription meds. But critics say it’s the latest middleman to claim a piece of the fractured and opaque health care industry.

Here’s how to buy digital real estate in the metaverse

Before you buy a digital plot of land, you need to come to terms with what it really is: an intangible space within a virtual world. And more important, buying into the metaverse is a bet on the future of the metaverse itself. 

AB InBev CEO Michel Doukeris is writing a 10-year strategic plan (and you probably should too)

“While everybody is thinking short term, I was really thinking 10 years [ahead] and thinking, What are the small things that consumers want to do today that will be very big 10 years down the road?”

Female founders are crashing the billionaire club

As the women who created Bumble, Spanx, and 23andMe achieve new levels of wealth and success, can they open the door for the female entrepreneurs coming behind them?

How Toyota kept making cars when the chips were down

A global semiconductor shortage has hobbled the auto industry in 2021—but Toyota was able to tame it. Competitors are watching and learning.

How crypto and NFTs could help regular people become real estate tycoons

By using technologies online from the cryptocurrency world, like tokens and blockchains, regular people could participate in real estate transactions that are too unwieldy in the analog world.

Why employers offering lavish work-from-home perks could be making a strategic blunder

In the war for talent, some major employers—and smaller ones too—could be making a strategic blunder. Research shows that the most talented candidates are eager to get back to the office.

Force of nature: How the unstoppable Marc Benioff fueled Salesforce's stratospheric rise

The cofounder and CEO has driven his software company to dizzying growth. Will the company's $28 billion acquisition of Slack slow him down?

Why accountability matters now more than ever in business

In the wake of the pandemic and other crises, the public trusts Corporate America far more than it does government or the press. But if business abuses that trust, there'll be a price to pay.

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