Title: Organizational founder - Wikipedia
Headings: Organizational founder
Organizational founder
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Issues arising from the role
Legal status
Founder emeritus
Founder's dilemma
Forgotten founder
See also
References

Content: A drawback to such an arrangement is the possibility that the founder will clash with the person who has replaced them as leader of the organization, and that such a conflict will affect the performance of the founder emeritus as a board member. Founder's dilemma
In some instances, the desire of the founder to maintain control over the organization becomes a problem because, when an entrepreneurial organization is successful, " [i]t outgrows the ability of the founder, or even of a small team around the founder, to control". The Harvard Business Review identified this problem as the founder's dilemma, noting that in most successful companies, the founder is pushed out of control by investors within the first few years after the formation of the company. In some cases, a company may have multiple founders, and a prominent source of conflict can be disagreements between these founders as the company evolves. Efforts must be made to balance the responsibilities of each so that no one founding member feels involuntarily diminished in their role relative to the others. Forgotten founder
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. To avoid this problem, it is advised that the entity " incorporate early and issue shares that are subject to vesting over time". See also
Startup company#Founders/entrepreneurs
Founder's syndrome
References
^ a bPakroo, Peri (2015). Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide (6th ed.).