How to Use founder in a Sentence

founder

1 of 2 noun
  • But most founders use it wrong.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But here's where most founders mess up.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Can the founder step away for two weeks?
    — Louis Mosca, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • For founders, chaos isn’t an edge case.
    — Big Think, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The founder who sees them first owns them.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Cat, a co-founder of the group, asked.
    — Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2026
  • This is where a founder's record comes back in.
    — Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • And the point of our founders was access.
    — Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The founders are anxious about the pace.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Most founders are decent at one to one trust.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • That’s the insight most founders miss.
    — Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • As a founder, your job isn’t to sell an investor.
    — Aaron Vaccaro, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Get my free playbook for founders who want their time back.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Yet, time and again, founders make the same mistakes.
    — Aaron Vaccaro, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Prince Seeiso of Lesotho was the co-founder.
    — Brian Melley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • And yet, our founders didn’t start with a map or a bloodline.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Both founders worked at the search giant for more than four years.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Our founders did not want the president to be a king.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The modern founder does not need to manage a big team.
    — Matteo Pittaluga, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The founders here learned every part of it from zero.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Too many founders think business success comes at a price.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Who did the founders pick, either by choice or by default?
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This is what real founder rest looks like in practice.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • What moment made the founder bold enough to build something?
    — Lindsay Tjepkema, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This is not an argument against young founders.
    — Peter Thompson, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Most founders treat culture as something that emerges on its own.
    — Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Its founder still speaks of love as the brand’s true currency.
    — Maria Williams, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Here, evidence is what gets founders through the door.
    — Roman Axelrod, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The founders who do this stop chasing clients within twelve months.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Michu’s founder saw a gap big enough to change the industry.
    — Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026

founder

2 of 2 verb
  • Her career foundered, and she moved from job to job for several years.
  • On screen, some of our best artists have foundered in translation.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • The Ohio soon foundered, its crew of 16 rescued by the Moonlight.
    — John Flesher, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • That era foundered on the costly losses of multiple Mars probes.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Some Chinese analysts have been blunt in their views of how Russia has foundered.
    — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Some breweries, even historic ones with pedigrees as noble as Anchor’s, will founder and sink.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • The boat foundered about 50 miles southwest of Pylos, a city in southern Greece.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • An intention to leave promptly may founder on last-minute complexities.
    — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Certainly, a monocausal account of anything is likely to founder.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Joel Gratz is having a bluebird day at a time when the rest of the Colorado ski industry is foundering.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The drill only got a couple hundred meters below the seabed before the project foundered under spiraling costs.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 25 May 2023
  • The kid who gets straight A’s through high school may struggle more in college than the one who foundered in ninth grade, figured out what went wrong, and then kept going.
    — Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • With the team foundering and Snyder engulfed in scandals, the owners began to contemplate ways to force him out.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • An untold number of great novels have gone unwritten while their authors foundered in Hollywood.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • As his campaign foundered, DeSantis focused his resources on Iowa.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Multiple efforts by the United States and the UN to broker peace foundered.
    — Uri Kaufman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Dinosaurs were flourishing, not foundering, as kings of the Cretaceous right up until the end, according to the new study.
    — Dino Grandoni The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The owners initially planned to close only some of the stores, but that changed in late June, when a $45 million loan to keep the business afloat foundered.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, the bipartisan talks to extend the subsidies foundered, setting the stage for a massive spike in health care premiums next year.
    — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Plans to turn the Brewster Street site into more than 200 apartments for senior veterans had foundered.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Beneath the opaque veneer that cult wineries like Bryant have striven to maintain, is that business model foundering in a changing wine market?
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2019
  • But past negotiations foundered on less ambitious demands.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But multiple attempts to pass immigration reform bills of any significance over the past 15 years have foundered.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • The financing from Zac’s family for the Lisbon deal never came through, and the project ultimately foundered.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Support could founder, however, if the country is seen as a black hole for Western aid, adding further urgency to the anti-corruption campaign.
    — David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2023
  • An artist and free spirit, Noni encouraged her husband’s performing aspirations when his first dream — playing pro football — foundered.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • This is a significant year, marking 50 years since the Fitzgerald foundered in a Lake Superior storm.
    — Jay Gabler, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Over the last 12 months, investors poured money into artificial intelligence startups, but the rest of the industry foundered.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The site contains remains from multiple vessels, suggesting a history of merchant ships that likely foundered in the same treacherous area while approaching the shore.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
  • And the game—the most prestigious and lucrative women’s sport in the world, at a time when women’s sports are garnering interest and recognition as never before—is foundering.
    — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024

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