founder
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Tax records identified the founder and operator of the nonprofit as 59-year-old Ewa Hanna Konca.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
In a statement to ProPublica, Navatek founder Loui said Kao’s “unethical and illegal method of winning contracts” was a departure from how he operated the company prior to Kao’s ownership.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Virginia Sole-Smith, author of Fat Talk and founder of the Burnt Toast newsletter and podcast, highlights that in today’s world, “you have to make a really conscious choice to protect your right to have hunger.”
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
“If you run an ocean liner, you can’t turn it around by tomorrow,” said Alois Pirker, founder of Pirker Partners, which advises wealth managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
A gigantic heliogram of founder Louis Antonio Villarreal tipped his wide-brimmed hat.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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“I’m sure we’ll invest in some of the founders that come out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
All are still run by their founders, says Vinall, and each has a wide moat around its business.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
‘They grind and keep pushing. … Many of these first-generation founders are bad at hobbies.’
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
For some founders, staying small is just fine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Joe Flom and the founders of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz got multiple breaks.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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A plan to convert it to a private school foundered during Covid and Sebastian said it is considering next steps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Authentic specializes in acquiring and investing in famous retail properties that have foundered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 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
Plans to introduce a universal healthcare system also foundered in the legislature, while unemployment and interest rates both soared.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
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
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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
In 1981, Esquire magazine ran a story written by onetime UPI photo staffer Stanley P. Friedman about the most-requested pictures that never actually existed: A shot of the foundering Titanic in 1912.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The unusually large, half-point rate reduction is expected to be the first in a series of cuts, aimed at helping keep the economy and the labor market from foundering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
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
A trocar being a sheathed sort of ice pick instrument you stab into the bellies of foundering ruminants to let out the deadly gases.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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