title: Founder
text: # Founder
  
  Founder or Founders may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Founders Park, a stadium in South Carolina, formerly known as Carolina Stadium
  * Founders Park, a waterside park in Islamorada, Florida
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Founders (Star Trek), the alien leaders of the fictional state and military superpower the Dominion, in Star Trek
  * The Founder (newspaper), the student newspaper at Royal Holloway, University of London
  * The Founder, a 2016 biographical feature film about McDonald's pioneer Ray Kroc
  
  ## Companies and organizations
  
  * Founder Group, a Chinese information technology and pharmaceutical conglomerate
     * Founder Technology, a Shanghai subsidiary
  * Founders Brewing Company, a craft brewery located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
  * Founders Ministries, Christian group in the United States
  * Worshipful Company of Founders, a livery company based in London, England, United Kingdom
  
  ## Roles
  
  * Organizational founder, the person or group of persons responsible for creating an entity
     * Founder, in entrepreneurship, the starter of a private or public company
     * Philanthropist, the starter of a charity
  * Founder, a metallurgist who operates a foundry
  * Founding Fathers - see list of national founders
  
  ## Science and healthcare
  
  * Founder, a hoof ailment caused by laminitis
  * Founder effect, genetic effect of expansion of isolated small populations
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Founder (IRC), management status for Internet Relay Chat
  * To founder (or foundering), a nautical term for shipwrecking
  