founding

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Despite raising more than $185 billion since its founding in 2015, the company isn’t close to profitability.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

So during oral arguments, Justice Neil Gorsuch and others focused on a potential parallel: alcohol use at the time of the founding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Soundgarden founding member and guitarist Kim Thayil gives us “A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond,” out on June 9.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

In this Money Talks: Author and financial journalist Brendan Greeley tells Elizabeth Spiers about his new book, The Almighty Dollar—and the astonishing power this currency held long before the founding of the United States.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

Gerald Lesser, a Harvard University psychologist who joined with Cooney in founding Sesame Street, says that when he was first asked to join the project, back in the late 1960s, he was skeptical.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell