founder

The entrepreneur who started a business. If multiple entrepreneurs were involved in the creation of the company, they are referred to as the founders. The origin of the word is that a founder originally meant a person who forges steel; similarly, the founder of a company is forging the new entity.

Everyone says that the way to be successful in business is to do something you enjoy and feel passionately about. If the reason for saying this is that it makes the work more fun, then this is logical. But if the reason for saying this is that businesses which the founders feel passionate about are the ones that tend to succeed, but that they succeed primarily because the founders are (due to their passion) willing to spend every waking hour on their business, then I wouldn't necessarily count that as a success, because other areas of their lives are likely to have suffered as a result.

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