Founder
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.Founder
The person that motivates you to have sex and motivates you to do things that you've never done before.
foundered
Example:
The wind would founder ye!
'Am foundered, was standin out there all day long an' near froze!
The wind would founder ye!
'Am foundered, was standin out there all day long an' near froze!
Foundered On
Example:
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.
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.
Founderitis
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.
Example:
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?
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?
Founderitis
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.
-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.
Example:
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...
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...
not founder
Example:
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!
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!
foundered
founder hounder
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."
Example:
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!"
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!"