Or a lengthy advertisement for Earth Friendly Products, whose retired founder's achievement it celebrates.
And it's particularly galling when voiced by privileged ivy leaguers whose idea of "checking their privilege" is apologizing for the acts of their founders, whose achievements and endowments should be examined in the same historical context as their faults and failings.
In 2005, he was a founder of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard.
The mixed legacy of the founders — their remarkable achievements, coupled with their tragic failures to put an end to slavery and prevent the removal of Native Americans — defies both the popular conception of the founders as marble statue heroes and the more recent revisionist view of them as "the deadest-whitest-males in American history".
It's a compelling model, run and sustained by dynamic and altruistic people like founder Wendy Kopp, whose achievement at TFA will be recognized next month when she receives an honorary doctorate at Washington University in Saint Louis.
He was a guest vocalist on Spanish Harlem Orchestra's album Across 110th Street (2004), and in 2005 he was honoured by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) with its Founders Award for lifetime achievement.
Founder Ray Kroc's true achievement over all those years was to knit his suppliers, employees and franchisees into the world's most efficient ecosystem for feeding people.
In a few short days John Oliver will take the stage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco and play host to The 7th Annual Crunchies Awards where TechCrunch, along with VentureBeat and Gigaom, will honor the best achievements, apps, founders, and startups of 2013.
Vanessa received her MBA from Stanford University and is the Co-Founder of Mindfulness Based Achievement, the New MBA, which teaches high potential women leaders how to lean in without burning out.
Then, in December, SavingStar crossed another milestone, announcing that it had surpassed 1 million active users in exactly 230 days, an achievement which its founders were quick to note it accomplished faster than bigs like Groupon, Twitter (over 2 years), or Foursquare (just over a year).
