founder
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“There are certainly a lot of people who I think have grown in recognition as to the salience of the threat,” said Jake Adler, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Pilgrim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The Navatek founder, Loui, had long since soured on his chosen successor.
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
Tanner Kelly, founder of the pro-merger organization Neighbors for Strong Communities, said his group had been concerned about job losses if Paramount were to leave California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rob Malda, the founder of Slashdot, was also urging me to stop.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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Before hiring, these founders are asking if AI can do the job instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Many of these first-generation founders are bad at hobbies.
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
Back in Washington, D.C., the Public Allies founders had mustered a fledgling class of fifteen Allies who were working in various organizations around the city.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
Earlier efforts to establish a U.S. rare-earth industry foundered because China has flooded the market, undermining the business case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 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
In May 1999, Sir Tony Blair received an update from the Treasury, in a document warning that discussions with ICL over the terms of a deal "have foundered".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
By the end of the year, the campaign foundered.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
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
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
His knights rode destriers, and the big warhorses were foundering in the snow.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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