founder

[ˈfaʊndɚ]

Definition:
1. A person who starts an organization, institution, etc. or causes something to be built.
2. To fail because of a particular problem or difficulty.
3. To fill with water and sink.

Use 'founder' in a sentence:

1. This belief began with Laozi, the ancient philosopher and founder of Taoism who lived around 2,500 years ago.
2. Merzenich is also a co-founder of Posit Science, a company that makes one of the brain training programs used at Walter Reed and other military.
3. The original founder is still head of the organization.
4. He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the "perfect search engine" will ''understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want."
5. With global climate-change negotiations foundering, the prospects of raising cash for REDD that way look poor.
6. He is the founder of impressionism.
7. He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the "perfect search engine" will "understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want."
8. If you can build professional friendships and work with people, there is no better co-founder.
9. It's been postponed until 2017, says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art.
10. "It's been postponed until 2017," says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art.
11. "It allows students to get immediate feedback on their work, so that lean turns into a game, with students naturally toward resubmitting the work until they get it right," said Daphne Roller, a computer scientist and a founder of Coursera.
12. Maria Droujkova is a founder of Natural Math, and has taught basic calculus concepts to 5-year-olds.
13. Last year the Hewlett Foundation, a grant-making organization set up by one of the Hewlett-Packard founders and his wife, sponsored two$ 100,000 prizes aimed at improving software that grades essays and short answers.
14. Mr Meridor's father was a comrade-in-arms of the party's founder.
15. Ironically, the Federal government is the chief founder of predator-control programs.
16. Three ships foundered in heavy seas.
17. This apparent anomaly is partially explained by the fact that most founder mutations are recessive: only a person with copies of the affected gene from both parents becomes ill.
18. Its founder Rodolphe Julian was a canny businessman.
19. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.
20. Co-founder Kresse Wesling said, "Late last year we launched an ambitious five-year partnership with the Burberry Foundation."
21. As Washington editor of The Nation magazine and founder of the legendary I.F. Stone's Weekly, he specialized in publishing information ignored by the mainstream media.
22. If Steel was routinely sleeping for four hours a night, she would be drastically underestimating the negative impact, says Alison Gardiner, founder of the sleep improvement programme Sleep station.
23. He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.
24. At work, I always used to say hello to the founder of the company and ask him how our business was doing.
25. According to Richard Rusczyk, the company founder, the six U.S. team members who competed at the IMO last year collectively took more than 40 courses on the site.
26. The founder of two tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and enabling humans to live on other planets.
27. Yu Minhong, CPPCC member and founder/ CEO of the New Oriental Education& Technology Group.
28. Even Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is one of his fans.
29. For example, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was quiet and didn't like to talk with others when he was a little kid.
30. Now, many people consider John Watson to be the founder of behaviorism.
31. Linda, co-founder of Scores, a leading digital analytic company, established her organization on a simple premise.
32. The teacher training college put up a plaque to the college's founder.
33. The project foundered as a result of lack of finance.
34. Of course, founders should negotiate hard to avoid the highly dilutive ratchet.
35. The founder became paralyzed in a paragliding accident.
36. Salman Khan, 42, from the US, is the founder of the learning website Khan Academy.
37. For example, US Microsoft founder Bill Gates, world-famous actress Zhang Ziyi and singer Gem Tang from Hong Kong.
38. This removes it at once beyond the special care of the founder.
39. The tiny shops made economic sense, according to Robert Kerr, a founder of LoveFone.
40. The editor's office used to be occupied by founder Dewitt Wallace, who, along with his wife, Lila Acheson Wallace, launched Reader's Digest in 1922 with condensed articles from other publications.
41. "It's just giving people information and encouraging them," Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert told CNB, "When Spot is patrolling the area, there's a parks officer nearby who can do whatever enforcement he decides is suitable."
42. The talks have foundered, largely because of the reluctance of some members of the government to do a deal with criminals.
43. Its founder, Rodolphe Julian, was a canny businessman and quickly established his school as a premier destination for women artists.
44. The city's rather uncompromising bleakness is a permanent memorial to its dark and mysterious founders.
45. Our boat foundered on a reef.
46. The idea of company founders Valley that it's got a name: entrepreneur's syndrome.
47. After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.
48. Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, makes great innovations in people's way of trading.
49. Though the service is available only in California, its founder Michael Cane says he plans to franchise it in other states.
50. He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty.
51. He went to work for a battery research company and waited years before the founder promoted him to CEO.
52. One pioneer, in particular, who disagrees is David Tebbutt, the founder of Computertown UK.
53. He was the founder and guiding spirit of New York's Shakespeare Festival.
54. Liberal economist Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, says male economists have been on the inside of the profession, confirming each other's anti-regulation views.
55. He is the founder of International Sports Management Limited.
56. The peace talks foundered on a basic lack of trust.
57. Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.
58. Adam Smith is considered one of the founders of classical economics.