Entrepreneur's 100 Brilliant Companies of 2018Our annual list celebrates boundary-pushing and inspiring entrepreneurship. See you on the list next year?

What makes a company brilliant? There's no single answer, so we started with a question: "What in the past year made us say, "That's brilliant!'?"

To compile this, the 2018 edition of our 100 Brilliant Company list, we explored boundary-pushingentrepreneurship-- from Kevin Hart challenging comedy's pecking order to bigrisks, freshemployee perksand meaningful social missions.