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founder

[faun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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Yet, in the modern era, founder protections have become more in vogue with certain hot-tech companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Diwali Basket Brigade founder, Deepak Parekh, said the initiative is "our little way of bringing some light and some hope into the families that need it most"

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Others, including Damped Spring Advisors founder Andy Constan, have warned that a bubble isn’t forming in stock prices but rather in projected earnings.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026

Rick McCormack, the architect behind the look, credited founder David Overton with the inspiration, saying he wanted to evoke funky 1970s San Francisco restaurants located in grand Victorian houses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Unarmed and defenseless against enemy fighters or antiaircraft fire, the U-2 was purpose-built to house powerful cameras designed for the CIA by Edwin Land, the founder of the Polaroid Corporation.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

In its filing, Anthropic said it believes the founders group is “distinctly equipped to be stewards of our mission.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

One of the founders of Novaya Gazeta in the 1990s - and for many years its chief editor - was journalist Dmitry Muratov, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

It evokes what was said to be the mission statement of Google’s founders at the time of its IPO, which was “Don’t be evil.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The second is that while the founders and executives say up front that they have “pledged” to give 80% of their wealth to philanthropic causes, it turns out this isn’t a pledge at all.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

From the Pilgrims to the founders of the United States and continuing to the present day, the idea of a covenant involving people and God has persisted.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Programs to build frigates, extend the lives of aging cruisers and operate a large fleet of littoral combat ships have foundered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

After nearly a year of sailing, the ship struck a reef in heavy storms and foundered on May 21, 1832.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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

And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025

Otto cried in terror at my back as I foundered, but I regained my footing, and we were back to running through the trees.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

But by the time Polanco became a free agent last winter, his career was foundering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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

In 2019, she also became president of an education organization called Achievement for All Children, which was chosen by state officials to turn around a foundering public school in Robeson County.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

Cross gales he blew, making me lose my bearings, and heaved up seas beyond imagination— huge and foundering seas.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer


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