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founders

NOUN

person who establishes an institution

Synonyms

STRONGEST

architect author benefactor builder creator designer inventor organizer patron planner

STRONG

beginner constructor framer generator initiator maker originator

WEAK

establisher forebearer institutor prime mover

Antonyms

STRONGEST

opponent

VERB

go under, fail

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abort break down fall through stumble

STRONG

collapse fall lurch miscarry misfire sink sprawl stagger submerge submerse trip

WEAK

be lost come to nothing go down go lame go to bottom

Antonyms

STRONG

increase rise

WEAK

accomplish achieve succeed

Example Sentences

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An IPO solves that problem, giving founders, employees, and other private shareholders an opportunity to sell shares at will.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Google and Facebook both put in place supervoting shares before they went public, granting their founders a level of outsized control.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

As mortality took the last of the Declaration’s signatories from the scene, the document came to be a link back to the founders.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Most attendees were aspiring founders or founders, some of whose startups are backed by Slow.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Over the course of the next four decades, the national debate over slavery and its expansion into the West was often framed as an argument over the intent of the founders.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis