He was one of the founders of the United Federation of Teachers.
Along with Lloyd George and Beveridge, the Webbs can be said to be founders of the modern welfare state.
That's often the brilliance of a thought, that people put their own meaning in to it," says Hegarty, one of the founders of the BBH agency, recalling his trip 30 years ago to the Audi workshop during which the genus of the idea was born.
The work that Snow, who was born 200 years ago last Friday, undertook to prove his case remains a classic of medical detection and reveals Snow as one of the founders of epidemiology, a science that has since helped unravel the causes of a host of illnesses and saved countless lives.
Their leader, Alexander Zaldostanov, is known as "the Surgeon" and is one of the founders of Anti-Maidan, a Russian group that has promised to crush liberal protesters it believes are determined to create a Ukrainian-style revolution in Russia.
For Crumb and Roy Sebag, the founders of BitGold Inc, whatever the world's politicians and central bankers choose to do about gold and the dollar (or gold and the Euro, or gold and the yen) is interesting, but irrelevant to their own business plans.
Instead, according to Nick Faith, director of the Westminster Policy Institute, whose founders include former Downing Street adviser Sean Worth, the government will seek to ameliorate the hurt that is inflicted through a major housebuilding programme, while hoping that economic growth will ease the challenge by bringing in greater tax receipts.
"The aspiration for the founders is that Xiaomi will become a global company that happens to be in China," said Barra - Xiaomi's first non-Chinese hire.
The insight of Durer – not to mention Shakespeare and Cervantes – that mental shadows are part of human life was lost on the founders of London's Bethlem Hospital.
"I like to think that I could recognize it in myself that I've lost it, but most of the time you don't," he told her. "I hope not to abuse the privilege of being one of the founders and therefore not being tapped on the shoulder when the time is right".
And none of the founders are now anywhere near managing the company: within a few years of it getting off the ground, they'd all been cleared out for managers from big business.
