cofounder

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Recent Examples of cofounder When Figma went public in July 2025, the largest selling shareholder was the Marin Community Foundation, a Bay Area nonprofit focused on affordable housing that had received about a third of cofounder Evan Wallace’s shares before the offering. Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026 Benjamin Davis is the cofounder of Chill Subs, a platform used by over 90,000 writers to discover, track, and submit to literary magazines. Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026 And Daphne Zohar, 56, is cofounder and CEO of Seaport Therapeutics, which is working on developing next-generation drugs for anxiety and depression. Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 At the time, Shakur was signed to music label Death Row Records, where cofounder Knight was CEO. Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Palmer Luckey is an American inventor, founder of Oculus VR, and cofounder of defense technology company Anduril Industries. Bydavid Schepp, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026 Shane Legg, a DeepMind cofounder and its chief AGI scientist, will continue reporting to Hassabis, along with a wider team, according to the same person. Billy Perrigo, Time, 6 Aug. 2026 Mitchell Zuckerman, a cofounder of Art Market Advisors and a former Sotheby’s executive, told me that executors and beneficiaries frequently choose guarantees. Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 In March, BioNTech announced that Sahin and his cofounder and wife Özlem Türeci, the company’s chief medical officer, would depart the company to lead a new biotech focused on developing mRNA medicines. Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cofounder
Noun
  • What those founders were building looked very different from the Waubonsee Community College of today.
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Lane is vice president and founder of the Envisioning Studio at Google, an AI prototyping lab that explores emerging technologies.
    Mya Copeland, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Chef and content creator Pierce Abernathy is known for sharing recipes with his social media followers.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Marketers running always-on creator programs should mark August 24 as a break in the series and shift year-over-year comparisons to engaged views, which YouTube says preserves the old definition.
    Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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