When Schreck was little, she participated in a theatre company that her mother founded called Short Shakespeareans.
Draper also means to concentrate on an entrepreneurship school that he founded called the Draper University of Heroes.
Ms. Weir, head of a group she founded called If Americans Knew, has given perhaps 300 speeches since 2001.
Mr. Hinkle is twice retired, first from Goldman Sachs and then from a finance company he founded called BrokerTec, which handles electronic bond trades between large firms.
As a continuing side project, he remains the creative director of an irreverent greeting-card company he founded called Order of St. Nick.
Mr. Arrington, making a surprise appearance Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, the start-up conference he founded, called it "a sad day for me".
But Ms. Smaltz, now the chief executive of a small fashion company she founded called the Ground Crew, said she was delighted when Ms. Marquis finally approached her.
The Internet services company MarchFirst Inc. said yesterday that it was spinning off a company it founded called MarketsWork, a maker of Web-based business software.
Mr. Nichols, who taught Mr. Roland at the New Actors Workshop, which he founded, called his producing the play "a rare thing" driven by his belief in the script.
