COFOUNDER Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

cofounder

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Recent Examples of cofounder Norma Mitchell, cofounder of the business and grandmother of its current top executives, died of the disease, and many other family members, employees and customers have been touched by it. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison is ready to part ways with one of his Florida compounds. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2026 The polarizing Uber cofounder is back, building Atoms, an ambitious industrial robotics venture. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026 An Oscar nominee for Anora, Borisov delivers another knockout performance as Sutskever, a Russian immigrant, computer science prodigy, and, eventually, the morally conflicted cofounder of OpenAI. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 6 Oct. 2026 The model is particularly strong at coding and agentic tasks, cofounder and CEO Misha Laskin told Semafor. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Vikas Arora is an OD expert and cofounder of Princeton Academy, helping organizations build cultures people stay for. — Vikas Arora, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 News of the TriBeCa branch closure comes on the heels of a series of changes at the gallery, with cofounder Roland Augustine retiring at the beginning of this year, after forty years of dealing. — News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026 Synthesizing the broader season, auction house veteran Yuki Terase, cofounder of advisory firm Art Intelligence Global, highlighted the structural challenges currently facing top-tier secondary market offerings. — Hok-Hang Cheung, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

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Another ideological ally is Peter Thiel, a co-founder of software firm Palantir who temporarily moved his family to Buenos Aires in April.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Axios reported in June that Virtue AI co-founders Bo Li, Dawn Song, and Sanmi Koyejo were joining Meta along with other employees from the startup.

— Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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Atlantika Films’ Nano Arrieta-creator and producer with Claudia Ruíz — shares the writing room with Popy Blasco, Ibai Ariztegi and Bárbara Zemelman.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
Official outlets can quote from posts on fake accounts whose creators masquerade as ordinary members of the public, making a fringe claim seem normal.

— RENÉE DIRESTA, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

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