Founders

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Definitions and meanings of "Founders"

What do we mean by founders?

One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)

Someone for whose parents one has no data.

From the hills in Norn Iron we say that Foundered means we are cold. Urban Dictionary

(Verb) A phrase that was popular during the 20th century that means to be tired of or burn out on. Urban Dictionary

The foolish assumption that some founders of some companies and organizations have that leads them to believe that they have special privileges to make decisions that don't make good business sense. Urban Dictionary

When a founder retains disproportionate control in a startup past the time they are qualified to, leading to management problems: -The organization is strongly identified with the founder. -Staff meetings are held generally to rally the troops. -Typically, there is little organizational infrastructure in place, and what is there is not used correctly. -There is no succession plan. -Key staff are typically selected by the founder and are often colleagues of the founder. -Staff may be chosen due to their personal loyalty rather than skills or experience. -Professionally trained and talented recruits, often recruited to resolve difficulties in the organization, find that they are not able to contribute in an effective and professional way -The founder begins to believe his/her own Press/PR -The company suffers from decreasing public trust. -The organization becomes increasingly reactive, rather than proactive. -The company is unable to listen to their own users, community or outside experts. -The company is unable to learn from previous mistakes. -The founder frequently tries to position themselves as a "visionary" in a market they are inexperienced in. -The CEO is often unable to make tough choices related to operations such as removing inefficient staff. -When challenged the CEO assumes that users who do not agree with the CEO simply cannot understand the expertise he/she has built. Urban Dictionary

Someone who is a follower of the Minecraft YouTuber George not found aka GNF. Urban Dictionary

Verb. To relentlessly pursue a solution beyond the point where most humans would concede defeat. Often applied to challenges that others do not recognize as problems. Most frequently used when someone is annoyed that the founder will not leave them alone. To tweak and optimize with conviction and compulsion. Historical: originally used by spouses of start-up founders to describe really annoying behavior traits, usually a compulsion to solve a problem despite social cues that perhaps it's time to give up. Urban Dictionary

Belfast Slang. If something is to "founder" you, it would seriously hurt you, e.g. extreme cold. Urban Dictionary

The person that motivates you to have sex and motivates you to do things that you've never done before. Urban Dictionary

Northern Irish term for tired out, knackered. Urban Dictionary

A person, usually a heterosexual female, who pursues relationships or hookups with the founders of tech startups. Like a jersey chaser for nerds. This term was used in the "Bachmanity Insanity" episode of "Silicon Valley." Urban Dictionary

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The word "founders" in example sentences

Who cares, one of your founders is a spokesman for every Dem official in town. lankypup ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was an adviser to the Google founders from the start and invested in several start-ups. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Deda, who like the other founders is U.S. educated, says the upcoming national elections will determine Kosovo's future. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The story about how companies resemble their founders is something we have heard before. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Implying that the pledge dates to the time of the founders is just plain ignorance; but implying that a modification made to the pledge 62 years after it was written dates to a time almost 200 years prior is ludicrous. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most label founders are just fans at heart, who ended up becoming good at business. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We know this New York City label founders Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez met as students at the Parsons School of Design beloved by celebrities is looking for locations for its first boutique. ❋ Faith Hope Consolo (2012)

I became interested because of the co-founders is speaking at RailsConf on SproutCore and how Cocoa (Mac/iPhone) programming principles in SproutCore have helped him become a better developer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term of art was well understood by the founders from the Natural Law treatise Law of Nations (1753) — Indigenous Natives, or Natives from within, or those born in a country of citizens parents. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"One of my favorite founders is James Madison, principal author of the Constitution," Rove says in the spot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

EE: As one of the main founders of Killer Year 2007 - tell us how this innovative cabal came about? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Aside from complementary skillsets and shared workload, the other benefit of multiple founders is ability to sustain far lower labour costs while still getting the necessary headcount into the business. ❋ Ben Barren (2007)

One of Wikipedia's closest critics and founders is launching an alternative to the free online encyclopedia this week. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Paul: What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. ❋ Unknown (2006)

[The wind] would founder ye! 'Am foundered, was standin out there all day long [an'] near [froze]! ❋ Libbet (2006)

We went to the [movies] every weekend; we were completely [foundered on] it. She was foundered on her 4 [hour] commute from her house to work each day. ❋ OlFashioned (2013)

I realize that having a [palatial] [crash pad] in Hollywood is a waste of money but I am the founder of this company and I go there once a month so we are going to spend $10K a month to have it. What?! You think I have [founderitis]? ❋ ZMissy (2009)

Dan: Oh man, I wouldn't [invest] in that business that guy has a bad case of Founderitis Steve: What's that? Dan: It's like when Ted ran [Kik] into the ground and [bled] that unicorn dry... Steve: Oh... ❋ B3NYC (2019)

[Not founder]: Omg i love [gnf] so much, I am such a [not founder]! Person 1: woah should [I be] a not founder too? Not founder: Yes you definitely should! ❋ Peepmari (2021)

Example: "Stop foundering me!" Use case: Spouse walks into the kitchen to find their loved one in a pile of disassembled electronics. "I had to fix the light on [the waffle] maker." "I thought it still worked without the light." "Technically it does, but I didn't know when to take out my waffles." "I thought they were fine." "They were darker than I wanted." "Of course they were, so you had to founder the waffle maker?" "I've almost got it..." Use case: "I heard about a waterfall that iced over, but I can't go by myself. Let's go [ice climbing] tomorrow!" "I always get cold belaying you." "Look, I got you a heavy down jacket." "You got me that last year, and I was still cold." "It's pink, and you never get to wear it." "No." "I'll fill a [thermos] with hot chocolate." "Stop foundering me." [Impervious] "Look, I got heat packs to put in your boots and gloves." "STOP FOUNDERING ME!" ❋ GeneGeek (2016)

"[It'd] [founder] you [outside]" ❋ Laura112233 (2006)

I'm your "[founder]" because I encourage you to do [nasty shit] and other really [bad stuff]. ❋ Billyrivera (2017)

[I've been] going [since] [dawn] and I'm foundered ❋ AidanG (2005)

Clive: "Hey Otto, how's the organic sustainable single-origin artisanal [small batch] cold brew nitro coffee roasting gig going?" Otto: "Not great, man. It turns out that our proprietary method of using only high altitude [Jamaican Blue Mountain] beans filtered through the digestive tract of a [civet] cat is pretty expensive. So we set our price at $10 a cup, which barely covers our costs, but it's been hard to compete with these low-end stores like Four Barrel and Ritual that sell coffee for only $7, and the peasants here in SF actually drink that swill instead of ours. We went out of business." Clive: "Oh well, at least you have Matilda. She's your [ride-or-die-bitch], right?" Otto: "Um, not really. She ditched me for this douchebag who is Co-Founder and CEO of this stupid app called Pewply." Clive: "You mean the app where you take a picture of your feces and it gives you dietary recommendations based on their machine learning big data algorithms? Dude, Pewply is awesome. It totally helped me better come to grips with my gluten allergy." Otto: "Yeah I'm sensitive to gluten too. But I can't believe she left me for this chode just because of his piece of crap - no pun intended - startup!" Clive: "Connect the dots, man. Before you, she hooked up with the founders of Markitable, Zenalytics, Flooberli, Sharepnp, and Majikly. She's a classic founder hounder!" ❋ Nicholas D (2016)

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