founder
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"Losing such a size of forest every year is a disaster," said Sam Nguiffo, a lawyer and founder of the Centre for Environment and Development in Cameroon.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
FakeHaul founder Jack Yang said he built the app for someone he knows who struggled with impulse shopping.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Caruso is founder and executive chairman of the real estate firm Caruso.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
“The cats were originally for pest control,” says Ben Aubuchon, marketing manager for Aubuchon and great-grandson of the founder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
After their success with ‘Sinners,’ The Envelope asked Proximity Media founders Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian about the company’s past, present and future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Fintech founders have caught on to how Americans are altering their financial habits, and they’ve created new products to try to meet the moment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
By the 1980s, he had become one of the founders of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at The Open University in Milton Keynes.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
AfCRA's founders say there will be no government interference.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Be sure to wave,” Ms. Paige said, and they walked past living-busts of the founders.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
Le Pen's attempts to win the presidency foundered, although he finished runner-up in 2002.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
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
Once, Melynlas nearly foundered in a deep pool.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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
I thought of my namesake, James Donovan, on the foundering Titanic.
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
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