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founder

[foun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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“With positioning and seasonality less supportive, the market now faces a concentrated run of macro catalysts. Rates are the near-term risk,” wrote Warren Pies, founder of 3Fourteen Research, in commentary shared with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg recently wore a $1.3 million watch from F.P.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

The son of the founder of Italy's Luxottica is set to leave the world's leading eyewear group EssilorLuxottica, a spokesperson said Tuesday, against a backdrop of tensions surrounding the family holding.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Director and founder Edward Surman said: "Social media is a place where brands can alter their own story - where it's not moved around by the press."

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Like most young people of their time, the sisters also grew up with popular ghost stories like author Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Methodist founder John Wesley’s family haunt, “Old Jeffrey.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Its owner Leonid Radvinsky, who died earlier this year aged 43, bought the site from its British founders in 2018.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

As he researched, Barton said he was shocked to find that the majority of the founders were deeply devout, rather than the religion-shunning men he had learned about.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The festival’s founders boast quite an industry lineage, having met on the set of a Sofia Coppola movie, where they were production assistants.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

“The government would make out if the company succeeds in terms of collection but founders would not be personally liable if the company somehow failed,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

If Carmel’s founders should return, they could not afford to live there, but it wouldn’t go that far.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The original plan was to go into partnership with Porsche, but that deal foundered by late summer 2022.

From BBC Feb. 24, 2026

Instead, they foundered in the breeze, squeezing out whatever bitter juice was left in a dirge that would prove to drag on for at least another week.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2026

But then the Fed foundered on fundamentals and inflation surged.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

The five living presidents who succeeded him, whose own Mideast peace efforts sometimes bore brief fruit but more often foundered, have all paid public tribute to him, in their own ways.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2025

Our first attempt to explore how consumer product companies exploit class foundered when a major cosmetics company, which initially agreed to let a reporter inside their marketing department, got cold feet.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The commitments from senior management and an influential figure like Ma, who is no longer on the company’s board, helped to shore up Alibaba’s foundering share price.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Though British rule over his home country of Jamaica ended in 1962, independence and economic mismanagement led to high unemployment and a foundering youth culture.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

What’s more, in the Spy magazine era, Mr. Trump was just a local nuisance, a braggart presiding over a foundering casino-hotel empire.

From Salon Feb. 9, 2024

“The Shadow of a Doubt,” a full-length 1901 play that got close to a Broadway opening before foundering under murky circumstances.

From New York Times Aug. 23, 2023

A canopy, which had been carried on four poles over somebody or something, was sinking with the poles askew, like a liner foundering in Atlantic.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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