The Next Generation of Founders
April 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of Inc. magazine’s debut issue, and we’ve thought long and hard about how best to mark that milestone. In 1989, when Inc. turned 10, our founder, Bernard Goldhirsh, noted the publication’s “opportunity to shed light on company builders for the rest of America to appreciate,” and that he “saw the world of company builders as the continuum of economic creation in this country.” Thus, Inc.’s mission was “to encourage a large number of entrepreneurs to work away if this process of creation and economic growth were to continue.” Inc. remains proud to encourage creation and growth. That’s why, for our 40th birthday, we created the Founders Project. The Founders Project will take Inc.’s mission off the page and screen and into the real world. Over the…