Organizational founder

If an organization is created to carry out charitable work, the founder is generally considered a philanthropist.

[1] "One practical way to cope with overreliance on a founder is to distribute management duties so that others are clearly responsible for important operations.

[8] There are factors beyond the personality and professional accolades of a startup founder that impact the ability of a company to succeed, like trouble in funding, sudden market shutdown, not having the right team or poor scaling plan.

[9] Another problem that can arise is that of the forgotten founder, a person who participates early on in the formation of an enterprise, but leaves or is ousted before it achieves success, and then returns to claim a legal right to equity, intellectual property, or some other fruits of that success.

[10] To avoid this problem, it is advised that the entity "incorporate early and issue shares that are subject to vesting over time".